Razi : master of Qurʾānic interpretation and theological reasoning /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jaffer, Tariq
Corporate Authors: Oxford University Press.
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: [2015]
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=939f21e950b945d68de2e1397e70ae53
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (viii, 244 pages)
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index.
ISBN: 9780199948000
9780199947997
Index Number: B753
CLC: B961
Contents: Razi's escape from taqlid in philosophy -- Razi's escape from taqlid in exegesis -- The Qur?an's method -- Razi's engagement with the Mu?tazila -- The opponents of Mu?tazilite ta?wil -- Razi's critique of classical Ash?arism -- Razi's integration of the Mu?tazilite interpretive method into Sunnism -- The epistemological criterion for ta?wil -- Razi's rationalist objection to scripture -- The priority of reason over scripture -- The rational justification for the Prophet's credibility -- Miracles and the boundaries of reason -- The reception of Razi's methodology in Islamic traditionalism: Ibn Taymiyya on Tazi -- Razi's appropriation of Avicenna's philosophical exegesis -- Razi's reception of Ghazali's interpretation of light -- Razi's divergences from Avicenna and Ghazali: light as the bestowal of knowledge -- Razi's exegesis on the soul (nafs) and spirit (ruh?): structure and strategy -- The soul's quiddity (mahiyya) and its temporal origination (h?uduth) -- The soul's relation to the body -- Razi's doctrine on the vital spirit (ruh?) -- The soul's separability: sleep and death -- The Prophet's soul.