The framework : the Mu'tazilites
Reading Mu'tazilite ethics
Ethics as theology
Approaches to the study of Mu'tazilite ethics
Theology as law
Moral values between rational knowledge and revealed law
Rights, claims, and desert : the moral economy of ḥuqūq
The Baṣran Mu'tazilite approach to desert
"To deserve" : groundwork
Justifying reward and punishment : the values of deserved treatments
Justifying punishment : the paradoxical relations of desert and goodness
The causal efficacy of moral values : between sabab and 'illa
The right to blame, the fact of blame : views of the person ab extra
Moral continuity and the justification of punishment
Time and deserving
An eternity of punishment : the Baṣran justification of dawām al-'iqāb
Moral identity and the resources of Baṣran Mu'tazilite ontology
The primacy of revealed names : al-Asmā' wa'al-aḥkām
Why not Dhimma?
The identity of beings in Baṣran Mu'tazilite eschatology
Resurrection and the criterion of identity
Accidents and the formal reality of resurrected beings
Appendix : translation from Mānkdīm Shāshdīw, "The promise and the threat," in Sharḥ al-uṣūl al-khamsa.