Islamic Theology, Philosophy and Law

Divine Wisdom, Human Agency and the fiṭra in Ibn Taymiyya’s Thought 55 love of God and the human need for it, he argues, since t ...

56 M. Sait Özervarli contain these two principles: confirmation of the Truth [God] and love of Him. The first principle is verba ...

Divine Wisdom, Human Agency and the fiṭra in Ibn Taymiyya’s Thought 57 Thus, in Ibn Taymiyya’s approach, love of God (maḥabbat a ...

58 M. Sait Özervarli the knowledge He reveals is confirmed. Confirmation, thus, is a logical and epistemological activity; belie ...

Divine Wisdom, Human Agency and the fiṭra in Ibn Taymiyya’s Thought 59 and perfection.^73 Ibn Taymiyya’s spirituality, however, ...

60 M. Sait Özervarli necessary or dependent on human will. By definition, necessity can- not be a subject of argumentation or pr ...

Debating the Doctrine of jabr (Compulsion) Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya Reads Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī * Livnat Holtzman Introduction The ...

62 Livnat Holtzman Traditionalist thinkers reacted to these harsh accusations of heresy by asserting that although human actions ...

Debating the Doctrine of jabr (Compulsion) 63 jabr is necessitated, and jabr is true (naʿam, yalzamu al-jabru wal-jabru ḥaqqun)” ...

64 Livnat Holtzman in the same vein, shaped al-Rāzī’s image as the first and probably the only theologian, whose reputation as a ...

Debating the Doctrine of jabr (Compulsion) 65 nal textual proofs available for Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, and empow- ered him to re ...

66 Livnat Holtzman sion of faith. The so-called profession of faith in jabr is based entirely on al-Rāzī’s teachings, and differ ...

Debating the Doctrine of jabr (Compulsion) 67 ism and the Muʿtazilī libertarian freedom. This quartet of chapters is a didactic ...

68 Livnat Holtzman efits), another fairly early work, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya integrates a report of a dispute he supposedly had ...

Debating the Doctrine of jabr (Compulsion) 69 addressed to the Sunnis: “Do not sit (lā tujālisū) in the company of the Qadarīs a ...

70 Livnat Holtzman ment between the two rivals passes away when the Sunni delves into the definition of jabr,^27 while insisting ...

Debating the Doctrine of jabr (Compulsion) 71 himself admits, while pointing out that ṭalāq al-sakrān is a specific case, which ...

72 Livnat Holtzman ing their source, and the Jabrī refrains from citing the opinions of lead- ing scholars. In most cases, the J ...

Debating the Doctrine of jabr (Compulsion) 73 In an early stage of the debate, the resourceful Sunni even invites a Qadarī passe ...

74 Livnat Holtzman in which the human act comes into being, while concentrating, among other factors, on the efficacy of human p ...