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In this volume, Ozgur Koca offers a comprehensive survey of Islamic accounts of causality and freedom from the medieval to the modern era, as well as contemporary relevance. His bookis an invitation for Muslims and non-Muslims to explore a rich, but largely forgotten, aspect of Islamic intellectual history. Here, he examines how key Muslim thinkers, such as Ibn Sina, Ghazali, Ibn Rushd, Ibn Arabi, Suhrawardi, Jurjani, Mulla Sadra and Nursi, among others, conceptualized freedom in the created order as an extension of their perception of causality. Based on this examination, Koca identifies and explores some of the major currents in the debate on causality and freedom. He also discusses the possible implications of Muslim perspectives on causality for contemporary debates over religion and science.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Contents
- Conventions
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Causality in the Early Period: Muʿtazilites and the Birth of Ashʿarite Occasionalism
- 2 Toward a Synthesis of Aristotelian and Neoplatonic Understandings of Causality: The Case of Ibn Sῑnā
- 3 Occasionalism in the Middle Period: Ghazālῑ's and Rāzῑ's Responses to Ibn Sῑnā
- 4 The First as Pure Act and Causality: The Case of Ibn Rushd
- 5 Light, Existence, and Causality: The Illuminationist School and the Case of Suhrawardῑ
- 6 The World as a Theophany and Causality: Sufi Metaphysics and the Case of Ibn ʿArabῑ
- 7 Continuities and Developments in Sufi Metaphysics: The Cases of Qūnawῑ and Qayṣarῑ
- 8 Toward an Occasionalist Philosophy of Science: The Case of Jurjānῑ
- 9 Causality and Freedom in Later Islamic Philosophy: The Case of Mullā Ṣadrā
- 10 Occasionalism in the Modern Context: The Case of Said Nursi
- 11 Islamic Theories of Causality in the Modern Context: The Religion and Science Debate
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index