Displaying 1 of 1 2000 Format: Book Author: Nagel, Tilman. Title: The history of Islamic theology from Muhammad to the present / Tilman Nagel ; translated from the German by Thomas Thornton. Publisher, Date: Princeton, NJ : Markus Weiner Publishers, 2000. Description: xii, 329 pages ; 24 cm. Series: Princeton series on the Middle East Princeton series on the Middle East. Subjects: Islam -- Doctrines -- History. Other Title: Geschichte der islamischen Theologie. English Notes: Translation of: Geschichte der islamischen Theologie. Includes bibliographical references and index. Translated from the German. Contents: The Koran, the Foundation of Islamic Theology -- The Koran in Islamic Faith -- Islam -- Early History of the Koran -- Central Themes of the Koran's Message -- Divine "Destination" or "Power -- The Human Creature -- Attaining Salvation -- Faith and "Islam" -- Muslim Views on the Origin of Religious Persuasions -- On Islamic History between 632 and 750 -- Divine Determination versus Human Determination -- The Kharijites -- The Shiites -- Judgment Postponed -- The Beginnings of Sunnism -- The Two Types of Islam's Theological Literature -- The Hadith -- The Kalam -- Early Rationalism -- Arab-Muslim Society -- A Glance at the Early Abbasid Period -- The One God and His Revelation -- Human Actions -- Physics and Metaphysics -- Sunnites and Shiites as Opponents of Rationalist Theology -- Rationalism and Tradition -- The Caliphate's Political Decline -- Early Theological Reflection in Sunnism -- Sufism and Rationalism -- Sunnite Rationalism -- The Asharite School -- Theology and Philosophy -- Exoteric and Esoteric Meaning of the Revelation -- A Glance at the History of the Islamic Mind in the High Middle Ages -- Islamic Philosophy -- Re-establishing All Creatures' Power of Being -- Islamic Theology in the High and Late Middle Ages -- Islam and Gnosis -- Prophetic Message and Gnostic Weltanschauung -- Gnosis and Early Islamic Theology -- Gnosis within Islam -- Islamic Orthodoxy -- Sunnism as the Religious Creed of the Majority -- Orthodoxy and the Islamic State -- Shiite Orthodoxy -- Islam as Ideology -- Islam Is Knowledge. LCCN: 99049828 ISBN: 1558762027 1558762035 9781558762022 9781558762039 Other Number: 42592941 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 67485 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 297.09 Nagel Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1