Islam/ edited by Mona Siddiqui

Contents:

Volume II: Islamic Thought, Law, and Ethics
20. Necessary Knowledge in Islamic Theology 1
Binyamin Abrahamov
21. Aspects of the Creed of Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal: A Study
of Anthropomorphism in Early Islamic Discourse 15
Wesley Williams
22. The Unknowability of God in al-Ghazali 43
David B. Burrell
23. Observations on the Muslim Concept of Evil 55
G.E. von Grunebaum
24. Divine Preordination and Human Hope: A Study of the Concept
of Badd' in Imam! Shl'I Tradition 67
Mahmoud Ayoub
25. Conditions for Meaningful Comparative Philosophy 83
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
26. Two Muslim-Christian Debates from the Early ShlMte Tradition 93
David Thomas
11. Traditionist-Jurisprudents and the Framing of Islamic Law 117
Christopher Melchert
28. Dead Tradition: Joseph Schacht and the Origins of "Popular Practice" 139
Ze'ev Maghen
29. Was the Gate of Ijtihad Closed? 199
Wael B. Hallaq
30. Signs as Evidence: The Doctrine of Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328)
and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (D. 1351) on Proof 243
Baber Johansen
31. Islamic Law and Muslim Minorities: The Juristic Discourse
on Muslim Minorities from the Second/Eighth to the
Eleventh/Seventeenth Centuries 265
Khaled Abou El Fadl
32. The Islamization of Criminal Law: A Comparative Analysis 305
Rudolph Peters
33 Why You Should Poison Your Husband: A Note on Liability
in HanafI Law in the Ottoman Period 329
Colin Imber uc.ir^ ao oqq
34. Mahr. Legal Obligation or Rightful Demand? 339
Mona Siddiqui
35. Ethical Presuppositions of the Qur'an 351
George F. Hourani
36. Ethics in Medieval Islamic Philosophy 377
Charles E. Butterworth
37. The Answers of Applied Islamology 393
Mohammed Arkoun