Freedom Revisited: A Comparative Theological Approach to the Question of Free Will in Islam (Beitrage Zur Komparativen Theologie, 40) - Hardcover

Bani Assadi, Nasrin

 
9783506794697: Freedom Revisited: A Comparative Theological Approach to the Question of Free Will in Islam (Beitrage Zur Komparativen Theologie, 40)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3506794698 ISBN 13: 9783506794697
Publisher: Brill U Schoningh, 2024

Synopsis

Is the Qur'anic notion of faith reconcilable with a modern notion of freedom? The present work is an attempt to examine the possibility of a positive response to this question. Inspired by transcendental philosophy as developed by Kant and Fichte and later elaborated by Hermann Krings, the author provides a reformulation of the notion of faith in the Qur'an as "transcendental affirmation". It is argued in the book that faith in the Qur'an has to do with belief in transformation through affirmation, and that the lack of faith is associated with submitting oneself to systems of necessity and their immutability. It is obvious that in such a worldview there is hardly any place for freedom and for hope. Through the reformulation of the Islamic notion of faith as transcendental affirmation, the author has provided the possibility of speaking of transcendental freedom within the arena of Islamic Theology.

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Publisher
Brill U Schoningh
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3506794698
ISBN 13 
9783506794697
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
436