Ibn Taymiyya's theological ethics [electronic resource] / Sophia Vasalou.
Vasalou, Sophia, author.
2016
BP80.I29 V37 2016eb
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Title
Ibn Taymiyya's theological ethics [electronic resource] / Sophia Vasalou.
Author
Vasalou, Sophia, author.
ISBN
9780199397853 (electronic book)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199397839
Published
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 342 pages)
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199397839 doi
Call Number
BP80.I29 V37 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
297.5092
Summary
Ibn Taymiyya is a thinker often associated with dogmatism, but who also valued moderation and considered himself a defender of the harmony between human reason and religious faith. By closely examining the tenets of his ethical thought, Sophia Vasalou sheds fresh light on Taymiyya's intellectual identity.
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Ibn Taymiyya is a thinker often associated with dogmatism, but who also valued moderation and considered himself a defender of the harmony between human reason and religious faith. By closely examining the tenets of his ethical thought, Sophia Vasalou sheds fresh light on Taymiyya's intellectual identity.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction
1. Ethical value between deontology and consequentialism
2. Ethical knowledge between human self-guidance and the revealed law
3. Ibn Taymiyya's ethics and its Ash'arite antecedents
4. The aims of the law and the morality of God
5. Broader perspectives on Ibn Taymiyya's ethical rationalism
6. Return to the present
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

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