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  title info:
    title: Islamic theology and the problem of evil
  name:
    name part: Chowdhury, S. Z.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ua
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 252 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Like their Jewish and Christian co-religionists, Muslims have grappled with how God, who is perfectly good, compassionate, merciful, powerful, and wise permits intense and profuse evil and suffering in the world. At its core, Islamic Theology and the Problem of Evil explores four different problems of evil: human disability, animal suffering, evolutionary natural selection and Hell. Each study argues in favor of a particular kind of explanation or justification (theodicy) for the respective evil. Safaruk Chowdhury unpacks the notion of evil and its conceptualization within the mainstream Sunni theological tradition, and the various ways in which theologians and philosophers within that tradition have advanced different types of theodicies. He not only builds on previous works on the topic, but also looks at kinds of theodicies previously unexplored within Islamic theology, such as an evolutionary theodicy. Distinguished by its application of an analytic-theology approach to the subject and drawing on insights from works of both medieval Muslim theologians and philosophers and contemporary philosophers of religion, this novel and highly systematic study will appeal to students and scholars, not only of theology but of philosophy as well.
  table of contents: The Problem of Evil : Outlines -- Disability, Suffering, and Four Theodicies -- Non-human Innocents : Theodicies for the Problem of Animal Pain and Suffering -- Toward an Islamic Evolutionary Theodicy -- Flames of Love and Wrath : Hell and the Problem of Everlasting Punishment
  note: Safaruk Chowdhury.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Good and evil
    topic: Religious aspects
    topic: Islam
  subject:
    topic: Islamic ethics
  subject:
    topic: Theodicy
  subject:
    topic: Suffering
    topic: Religious aspects
    topic: Islam
  classification: BP188 .C48 2021
  classification: 297.2/118
  identifier: 9781617979934
  identifier: 1617979937
  identifier: 9781649030559
  identifier: 9781649030566
  identifier: 2020037109
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 201118
    record change date: 20211018100637.0
    record identifier: in00004446635