The Attributes of God in Islamic Thought: Contemplating Allah

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List of Contributors
Preface
Part I Allah of the Philosophers
	1 Dancing with the Devil or Chanting with Angels?: al-Rāzī’s Employment of Philosophical Arguments in Discussion of Divine Attributes
	2 The Ineffable and the Process of its Determination: Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī’s Considerations on the Origin
	3 Divine Love in Medieval Islamic Philosophy: Some Stages in the History of an Attribute
	4 Divine Simplicity, the Deus Revelatus, and the Divine Names in the Philosophical Theology of Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (1571–1636)
Part II Allah of the Theologians
	5 Abū al-Hudhayl al-‘Allāf on Divine Simplicity
	6 Does the Attribute “Baqāʾ” Exist?: Sunni Theologians on God’s Persistence
	7 Nūr al-Dīn al-Ṣābūnī and the Divine Attributes: Māturīdī Kalām in a Nutshell
	8 Is There an Elephant in Our Presence That We Cannot See?: A Deep Dive into Bahshamiyya Attributes Discourses
	9 The Omnipotence (al-qudra) and the Will of God (al-irāda) in the Theology of Sayf ad-Dīn al-Āmidī
	10 Constructing the True Islam: The Wahhābī Scholar Ibn ʿUthaymīn (d. 2001) on the Divine Attributes and the Path of the Pious Ancestors (Salaf )
	11 Divine Will and Anthropopathism in Muʿtazilī Theology: Abū ʿAlī and Abū Hāshim al-Jubbāʾī
	12 God as a Paradigm of the World: Ismāʿīl Gelenbevī on Divine Knowledge
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