From the divine to the human : contemporary Islamic thinkers on evil, suffering, and the global pandemic /: contemporary Islamic thinkers on evil, suffering, and the global pandemic. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Muhammad U. Faruque and Mohammed Rustom.
• Editors: Faruque, Muhammad U; Rustom, Mohammed
• Contents: Introduction Muhammad U. Faruque and Mohammed Rustom 1. Remarks on Evil, Suffering, and the Global Pandemic Seyyed Hossein Nasr 2. The Existential Threat of Climate Change: A Practical Application of Avicenna’s Theory of Evil Rosabel Ansari 3. On Self-Knowledge, Divine Trial, and Discipleship Mukhtar H. Ali 4. Necessitated Evil: An Islamic Neoplatonic Theodicy from the Ismaili Tradition Khalil Andani 5. Seyyed Hossein Nasr’s Metaphysical Theodicy Justin Cancelliere 6. Hume on Trial: Can Evil and Suffering be Justified? Muhammad U. Faruque 7. Cultivating Prayerful Presence at the Bedside: From Mastery Towards Mystery Hina Khalid 8. The Gifts of Suffering and the Virtues of the Heart Atif Khalil 9. Cain, Systemic Evil, and Our Inhumanity Martin Nguyen 10. Practical Muslim Theodicy: A Ghazalian Perspective on Emotional Pain Joel Richmond 11. The Student and the Sage Mohammed Rustom 12. Trials as Transformation in Islamic Chaplaincy Ailya Vajid 13. Transformative Love Amid Suffering in Hilmi Ziya Ülken Taraneh Wilkinson 14. Suffering as Metaphysical Narrative: Exploring an Islamic Theodicy of Authorship Cyrus Ali Zargar
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (304 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 297.5; Good and evil -- Religious aspects -- Islam; Suffering -- Religious aspects -- Islam; Islamic ethics; Theodicy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000892659; 9781000892635
• Related ISBNs: 9781032443409
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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