The Theology of Abū l-Qāsim al-Balkhī/al-Kaʿbī (d. 319/931)

The Theology of Abū l-Qāsim al-Balkhī/al-Kaʿbī (d. 319/931)
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Tables
Introduction
Review of Scholarship
Biography
Works
Titles of Lost Works
Part 1: Source Criticism
1. The Four Testimonies
The Muʿtazilī Testimony
The Imāmī Baghdadi Muʿtazilī Testimony
The Māturīdī Testimony
al-Ashʿarī and the Ashʿarī Testimony
Assessment of Testimonies
The Attributes
Justice
Epistemology
The Doctrine of Nature
The Imāma
Summary of al-Kaʿbī’s Theological Doctrines
Appendix 1: Articles in the Reconstruction of al-Kaʿbī’s Doctrine of
Justice
Appendix 2: Articles in the Reconstruction of al-Kaʿbī’s Epistemology
Appendix 3: Articles in the Reconstruction of al-Kaʿbī’s Cosmology
Part 2: Theology
2. The Attributes
al-Kaʿbī’s Precursors on the Attributes
al-Naẓẓām
Baghdadi Predecessors
al-Kaʿbī’s Doctrine of the Attributes
The Attributes of Essence and of Act
The Scripturalist Basis for Knowing the Attributes
The Attributes of Hearing, Seeing, and Volition
God’s Speech and God’s Relation to Place
The Case of the Basran Muʿtazilī and Māturīdī Testimonies: Attributes of Essence
The Case of the Basran Testimony versus ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Baghdādī: Scripture and God’s Names
The Case of the Late Ashʿarī Testimony
3. Justice
An Overview of the Basran Ontology of Acts
Early Muʿtazilī Views on Divine Justice
al-Kaʿbī’s Doctrine of Justice
The Principles for Distinguishing Good from Evil Acts
God’s Capacity for Doing Evil
The Optimum
The Case of the Basran Polemical Testimony: al-Kaʿbī’s Argument for the Optimum (al-aṣlaḥ)
4. Epistemology
Overview of Basran Epistemology
Early Muʿtazilī Epistemology
al-Kaʿbī’s Epistemology
The Case of the Basran Polemical Testimony: al-Kaʿbī’s Definition of Knowledge
5. The Doctrine of Nature
Early Muʿtazilī Doctrines of Nature
al-Kaʿbī’s Doctrine of Nature
6. The Imāma
The Baghdadi Muʿtazilīs on the Imāma Prior to al-Kaʿbī
al-Kaʿbī’s Doctrine of the Imāma
Epilogue
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Literature
Index of Names
General Index