Özgür Koca

Islam, Causality, and Freedom

From the Medieval to the Modern Era

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive survey of Islamic accounts of causality and freedom from the medieval to the modern era and their contemporary relevance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 162mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781108496346
• ISBN-10: 1108496342
• Artikelnr.: 58379607

Autorenporträt

Ozgur Koca is an assistant professor of Islamic Studies and Philosophy at Bayan Claremont Islamic Graduate School. His research focus is on Islamic Philosophy-Theology, Sufism, and Science and Religion Discussion.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Causality in the early period: Mütazilites and the birth of Ash
arite occasionalism; 2. Towards a synthesis of Aristotelian and Neo-Platonic understandings of causality: the case of Ibn S
n
; 3. Occasionalism in the middle period: the cases of Ghaz
l
and R
z
; 4. The first as pure act and causality: the case of Ibn Rushd; 5. Light, existence, and causality: the Illimunationist School and the case of Suhraward
; 6. The world as a theophany and causality: Sufi metaphysics and the case of Ibn
Arab
; 7. Continuities and developments in Sufi metaphysics: the cases of Q
naw
and Qay
ar
; 8. Towards an occasionalist philosophy of science: the case of Jurj
n
; 9. Causality and freedom in later Islamic philosophy: the case of Mull
adr
; 10. Occasionalism in the modern context: the case of Said Nursi; 11. A discussion on Islamic theories of causality in the modern context.