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Rāzī: master of Qur'ānic interpretation and theological reasoning
Tariq Jaffer
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page vii)
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INTRODUCTION (page 1)
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1. FORGING A NEW METHODOLOGY (page 16)
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1.1 Rāzī's Escape from Taqlīd in Philosophy (page 21)
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1.2 Rāzī's Escape from Taqlīd in Qur͗ān Commentary (page 29)
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1.3 The Qur͗ān's Method (page 39)
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2. DEVISING RULES OF EXEGESIS (page 54)
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2.1 Rāzī'S Engagement with the Mu͗tazila (page 56)
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2.2 The Opponents of Mu͗tazilite Ta͗wīl (page 58)
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2.3 Rāzī's Critique of Classical Ash͗arism (page 61)
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2.4 Rāzī's Integration of the Mu͗tazilite Interpretive Method into Sunnism (page 68)
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2.5 The Epistemological Criterion for the Application of Ta͗wīl (page 73)
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3. RECONCILING REASON (͗AQL) AND TRANSMITTED KNOWLEDGE (NAQL) (page 84)
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3.1 Rāzī's Rationalist Objection to Scripture (al'mu͗āriḍ al-͗aqlī) (page 86)
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3.2 The Priority of Reason (͗Aql) Over Scripture (Naql) (page 94)
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3.3 The Rational Justification for the Prophet's Credibility (page 99)
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3.4 Miracles and the Boundaries of Reason (page 104)
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3.5 The Reception of Rāzī's Methodology in Islamic Traditionalism: Ibn Taymiyya on Rāzī (page 117)
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4. INTERPRETING THE INTELLECT AND LIGHT (page 131)
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4.1 Rāzī's Appropriation of Avicenna's Philosophical Exegesis (page 133)
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4.2 Rāzī's Reception of Ghazālī: Light as the Bestowal of Knowledge (page 159)
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5. INTERPRETING THE SOUL AND SPIRIT (page 169)
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5.1 Rāzī's Exegesis on the Soul (Nafs) and Spirit (Rūḥ): Structure and Strategy (page 170)
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5.2 The Soul's Quiddity (Māhiyya) and Its Temporal Origination (Ḥudūth) (page 175)
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5.3 The Soul's Relation to the Body (page 187)
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5.4 Rāzī's Doctrine on the Vital Spirit (page 190)
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5.5 The Soul's Separability; Sleep and Death (page 195)
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5.6 The Prophet's Soul (page 199)
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Bibliography (page 215)
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Index (page 229)
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Published: c2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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