Salih Sayilgan

God, Evil, and Suffering in Islam

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Examines the Islamic theological approaches to the problem of evil and suffering both in theory and practice. The study does not only engages with the themes of aging, sickness, and death, it also sheds light on contemporary questions such as disability, environmental crisis, and pandemics"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781009377317
• ISBN-10: 1009377310
• Artikelnr.: 68888021

Autorenporträt

Salih Sayligan is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University. He is the author Exploring Islam: Theology and Spiritual Practice in America (Fortress Press, 2021).

Inhaltsangabe

I. God and the Problem of Evil: 1. Mapping the problem; 2. God
angles
humans
and Satan; 3. Natural evil and the role of God; 4. Moral evil
freedom
and predestination; II. Human Nature and Suffering: 5. Aging
loneliness
and filial piety; 6. Illness and healing; 7. Death
resurrection
and the hereafter; III. Contemporary Questions: 8. Disability
the blind
and God's justice; 9. The environmental and climate change; 10. Plagues
pandemics
and Coronavirus; Conclusion.