1st Edition
God and Humans in Islamic Thought Abd al-Jabbar, Ibn Sina and Al-Ghazali
Introduction 1. Historical and Cultural Context 2. Abd Al-Jabbar's View of the Relationship with God through Divine Assistance 3. Relationship with God through Knowledge and Love, Ishq in Ibn Sina's Philosophy 4. Relationship with God through Self Annihilation, Fana, According to Al-Ghazali 5. Comparison and Evaluation
Biography
Dr. Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin and was formerly a lecturer at Manchester University. Her fieldof interest is the Islamci medieval thought and its intellectual influence on rformulating Islam. Publications include: Al-Radd al-Jamil: Ghazali or pseudo-Ghazali in ed. David Thomas, The Arabic Bible, Leiden: Brill, Forthcoming (2006); 64 entries in the Encyclopaedia for Islamic Religion, Routledge, 2005; and 9 Entries in the Dictionary of Islamic Philosophers, Theommes Press, forthcoming 2005.
'[T]his study of the philosophical analysis of the Islamic faith is accessible to all philosophers who are interested in the relationship between religious faith and reason, and the author is to be congratulated for providing an extremely insightful and meticulous account of the human and divine relationship in the works of these significant Islamic thinkers.'
– Patrick Quinn, All Hallows College, Dublin, in Philosophy East & West
