Beschreibung:
Salih Sayligan is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University. He is the author Exploring Islam: Theology and Spiritual Practice in America (Fortress Press, 2021).
"Examines the Islamic theological approaches to the problem of evil and suffering both in theory and practice. The study does not only engages with the themes of aging, sickness, and death, it also sheds light on contemporary questions such as disability, environmental crisis, and pandemics"--
I. God and the Problem of Evil: 1. Mapping the problem; 2. God, angles, humans, and Satan; 3. Natural evil and the role of God; 4. Moral evil, freedom, and predestination; II. Human Nature and Suffering: 5. Aging, loneliness, and filial piety; 6. Illness and healing; 7. Death, resurrection, and the hereafter; III. Contemporary Questions: 8. Disability, the blind, and God's justice; 9. The environmental and climate change; 10. Plagues, pandemics, and Coronavirus; Conclusion.