The Challenge of Evil in Islamic Thought: A Brief Survey
Abstract The challenge of evil to rational Abrahamic religions has clearly been articulated in modern philosophy of religion predicated on the incompatibility of the omnipotence, omnibenevolence, and omniscience of God with the existence of evils. Even within the Islamic theological and philosophica...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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| In: |
Oriens
Year: 2021, Volume: 49, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 173-180 |
| Further subjects: | B
Theology
B Goodness B Providence B Evil B Theodicy B Neoplatonism |
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| Summary: | Abstract The challenge of evil to rational Abrahamic religions has clearly been articulated in modern philosophy of religion predicated on the incompatibility of the omnipotence, omnibenevolence, and omniscience of God with the existence of evils. Even within the Islamic theological and philosophical traditions, there is a venerable history of theodicies and defences of a good God and the efficacy of human free will. That is the context in which we wish to locate the contributions in this special issue that examine the ways in which evil is considered in Islamic philosophical accounts (particularly of the Šiʿi traditions) from the classical period to the present. |
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| ISSN: | 1877-8372 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Oriens
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18778372-12340009 |