Beschreibung:
Dr. Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin and was formerly a lecturer at Manchester University. Her fieldof interest is the Islamci medieval thought and its intellectual influence on rformulating Islam. Publications include: Al-Radd al-Jamil: Ghazali or pseudo-Ghazali in ed. David Thomas, The Arabic Bible, Leiden: Brill, Forthcoming (2006); 64 entries in the Encyclopaedia for Islamic Religion, Routledge, 2005; and 9 Entries in the Dictionary of Islamic Philosophers, Theommes Press, forthcoming 2005.
Winner of The Iranian World Prize for the Book of the Year 2007 in the Philosophy and Mysticism category.
Introduction 1. Historical and Cultural Context 2. Abd Al-Jabbar's View of the Relationship with God through Divine Assistance 3. Relationship with God through Knowledge and Love, Ishq in Ibn Sina's Philosophy 4. Relationship with God through Self Annihilation, Fana, According to Al-Ghazali 5. Comparison and Evaluation