Research Catalog

Title

God, evil, and suffering in Islam / Salih Sayilgan, Georgetown University.

Author

Sayilgan, Salih

Publication

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

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Details

Description

x, 205 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"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"--

Subject

• Good and evil > Religious aspects > Islam
• Suffering > Religious aspects > Islam
• God (Islam)
• Souffrance > Aspect religieux > Islam
• Dieu (Islam)
• Good and evil > Religious aspects > Islam
• Suffering > Religious aspects > Islam

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I. God and the Problem of Evil: 1. Mapping the Problem -- 2. God, Angels, Humans, and Satan -- 3. Natural Evil and the Role of God -- 4. Moral Evil, Freedom, and Predestination -- Part II. Human Nature and Suffering: 5. Aging, Loneliness, and Filial Piety -- 6. Illness and Healing -- 7. Death, Resurrection, and the Hereafter -- Part III. Contemporary Questions: 8. Disability, the Blind, and God's Justice -- 9. The Environment and Climate Change -- 10. Plagues, Pandemics, and Coronavirus -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9781009377317
• 1009377310
• 9781009377294 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023030695

OCLC

• 1390192813
• on1390192813
• SCSB-14698828

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library