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020			_a9781617979934 _q(hardcover)
020			_z9781649030559 _q(epub)
020			_z9781649030566 _q(pdf)
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050	0	0	_aBP188 _b.C48 2021
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100	1		_aChowdhury, S. Z., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aIslamic theology and the problem of evil / _cSafaruk Chowdhury.
263			_a2106
264	3	1	_aCairo, Egypt ; _aNew York, NY : _bThe American University in Cairo Press, _c2021.
300			_apages cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe Problem of Evil : Outlines -- Disability, Suffering, and Four Theodicies -- Non-human Innocents : Theodicies for the Problem of Animal Pain and Suffering -- Toward an Islamic Evolutionary Theodicy -- Flames of Love and Wrath : Hell and the Problem of Everlasting Punishment
520			_a"Like their Jewish and Christian co-religionists, Muslims have grappled with how God, who is perfectly good, compassionate, merciful, powerful, and wise permits intense and profuse evil and suffering in the world. At its core, Islamic Theology and the Problem of Evil explores four different problems of evil: human disability, animal suffering, evolutionary natural selection, and Hell. Each study argues in favor of a particular kind of explanation or justification (theodicy) for the respective evil. Safaruk Chowdhury unpacks the notion of evil and its conceptualization within the mainstream Sunni theological tradition, and the various ways in which theologians and philosophers within that tradition have advanced different types of theodicies. He not only builds on previous works on the topic, but also looks at kinds of theodicies previously unexplored within Islamic theology, such as an evolutionary theodicy. Distinguished by its application of an analytic-theology approach to the subject and drawing on insights from works of both medieval Muslim theologians and philosophers and contemporary philosophers of religion, this novel and highly systematic study will appeal to students and scholars, not only of theology but of philosophy as well. "-- _cProvided by publisher.
650	1	0	_aGood and evil _xReligious aspects _xIslam.
650	1	0	_aIslamic ethics.
650		0	_aTheodicy.
650		0	_aSuffering _xReligious aspects _xIslam.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aChowdhury, S. Z. _tIslamic theology and the problem of evil _dCairo, Egypt ; New York, NY : The American University in Cairo Press, 2021 _z9781649030559 _w(DLC) 2020037110
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