From the Divine to the Human (eBook, ePUB)

Contemporary Islamic Thinkers on Evil, Suffering, and the Global Pandemic
Redaktion: Faruque, Muhammad U.; Rustom, Mohammed

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Featuring the work of leading contemporary Muslim philosophers and theologians, this book grapples with various forms of evil and suffering in the world today, from COVID-19 and issues in climate change to problems in palliative care and human vulnerability.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000892659
• Artikelnr.: 68011564

Autorenporträt

Muhammad U. Faruque is Inayat Malik Assistant Professor of Islamic Thought and Cross-Cultural Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. Mohammed Rustom is Professor of Islamic Thought and Director of the Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam at Carleton University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
About the Contributors
An Anthropocentric Approach to Evil
MUHAMMAD U. FARUQUE AND MOHAMMED RUSTOM
1 Remarks on Evil, Suffering, and the Global Pandemic
SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR
2 The Existential Threat of Climate Change: A Practical Application of
Avicenna's Theory of Evil
ROSABEL ANSARI
3 On Self-Knowledge, Divine Trial, and Discipleship
MUKHTAR H. ALI
4 Necessitated Evil: An Islamic Neoplatonic Theodicy From the Ismaili
Tradition
KHALIL ANDANI
5 Seyyed Hossein Nasr's Metaphysical Theodicy
JUSTIN CANCELLIERE
6 Hume on Trial: Can Evil and Suffering Be Justified?
MUHAMMAD U. FARUQUE
7 Cultivating Prayerful Presence at the Bedside: From Mastery Towards
Mystery
HINA KHALID
8 The Gifts of Suffering and the Virtues of the Heart
ATIF KHALIL
9 Cain, Systemic Evil, and Our Inhumanity
MARTIN NGUYEN
10 Practical Muslim Theodicy: A Ghazalian Perspective on Emotional Pain
JOEL RICHMOND
11 The Student and the Sage
MOHAMMED RUSTOM
12 Trials as Transformation in Islamic Chaplaincy
AILYA VAJID
13 Transformative Love Amid Suffering in Hilmi Ziya Ülken
TARANEH WILKINSON
14 Suffering as Metaphysical Narrative: Exploring an Islamic Theodicy of
Authorship
CYRUS ALI ZARGAR
Index