Razi : Master Of quranic Interpretation And Theological Reasoning
First Statement of Responsibility
\ Tariq Jaffer
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Oxford
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Oxford University Press
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2015
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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viii,244 p.
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Index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Razi's escape from taqlid in philosophy -- Razi's escape from taqlid in exegesis -- The Qurʾan's method -- Razi's engagement with the Mu°tazila -- The opponents of Mu'tazilite taʾwil -- Razi's critique of classical Ash'arism -- Razi's integration of the Mu'tazilite interpretive method into Sunnism -- The epistemological criterion for taʾwil -- Razi's rationalist objection to scripture -- The priority of reason over scripture -- The rational justification for the Prophet's credibility -- Miracles and the boundaries of reason -- The reception of Razi's methodology in Islamic traditionalism: Ibn Taymiyya on Tazi -- Razi's appropriation of Avicenna's philosophical exegesis -- Razi's reception of Ghazali's interpretation of light -- Razi's divergences from Avicenna and Ghazali: light as the bestowal of knowledge -- Razi's exegesis on the soul (nafs) and spirit (ruh): structure and strategy -- The soul's quiddity (mahiyya) and its temporal origination (huduth) -- The soul's relation to the body -- Razi's doctrine on the vital spirit (ruòh) -- The soul's separability: sleep and death -- The Prophet's soul
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Razi, Fakhr al-Din Muhammad ibn 'Umar, 1149 or 1150-1210
فخر رازی، محمد بن عمر، ۴۴۵ - ۶۰۶ ق
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Entry Element
فلسفه اسلامی
Topical Subdivision
-- تاریخ
Islamic philosophy -- History.
Islam -- Doctrines -- History
Islamic philosophy -- History
Qur'an -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History