The Muʿtazila on Covenantal Theology: A Study of Individualist Approaches

Abstract This article examines how three leading exegetes of the Muʿtazilite school tradition – ʿAbd al-Jabbār (d. 415/1025), Jishumī (d. 494/1101), and Zamakhsharī (d. 538/1144) – conceptualized the Qurʾānic idea of covenant in divergent ways. It also illustrates how they related the idea of covena...

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1. VerfasserIn: Jaffer, Tariq (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Brill 2021
In: Oriens
Jahr: 2021, Band: 49, Heft: 1/2, Seiten: 131-171
weitere Schlagwörter:B Jishumī
B Salvation
B Covenant
B Zamakhsharī
B ʿAbd al-Jabbār
B Predestination
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Zusammenfassung:Abstract This article examines how three leading exegetes of the Muʿtazilite school tradition – ʿAbd al-Jabbār (d. 415/1025), Jishumī (d. 494/1101), and Zamakhsharī (d. 538/1144) – conceptualized the Qurʾānic idea of covenant in divergent ways. It also illustrates how they related the idea of covenant to their broader thought world to forge an interpretation of the meaning of human history and salvation. It argues that these three commentators, although they are linked to one another by a loose form of teacher-student discipleship, share only basic ideas and applied hermeneutical devices and interpretive principles in considerably different ways. It is unlikely that they relied on one another when they composed their commentaries.
ISSN:1877-8372
Enthält:Enthalten in: Oriens
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/18778372-12340002