Overview

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 book is 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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Author:   Özgür Koca
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.550kg
ISBN:  

9781108496346

ISBN 10:   1108496342
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   11 June 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Causality in the early period: Muʿtazilites and the birth of Ashʿarite occasionalism; 2. Towards a synthesis of Aristotelian and Neo-Platonic understandings of causality: the case of Ibn Sīnā; 3. Occasionalism in the middle period: the cases of Ghazālī and Rāzī; 4. The first as pure act and causality: the case of Ibn Rushd; 5. Light, existence, and causality: the Illimunationist School and the case of Suhrawardī; 6. The world as a theophany and causality: Sufi metaphysics and the case of Ibn ʿArabī; 7. Continuities and developments in Sufi metaphysics: the cases of Qūnawī and Qayṣarī; 8. Towards an occasionalist philosophy of science: the case of Jurjānī; 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. A discussion on Islamic theories of causality in the modern context.

Reviews

'This ambitious book covers a broad chronological and disciplinary range. It deftly analyses two intertwined and seemingly irreconcilable problems in the Islamic philosophical and theological traditions - human free will and restrictions on causal operations within a divinely-created world. Dr. Koca's monograph is an impressive addition to the growing body of scholarship in the Islamic rationalist disciplines.' Asad Q. Ahmed, University of California, Berkeley 'This ambitious book covers a broad chronological and disciplinary range. It deftly analyses two intertwined and seemingly irreconcilable problems in the Islamic philosophical and theological traditions - human free will and restrictions on causal operations within a divinely-created world. Dr. Koca's monograph is an impressive addition to the growing body of scholarship in the Islamic rationalist disciplines.' Asad Q. Ahmed, University of California, Berkeley

Author Information

Ozgur Koca is an assistant professor of Islamic Studies and Philosophy at Bayan Claremont Islamic Graduate School. His research focus is on Islamic Philosophy-Theology, Sufism, and Science and Religion Discussion.

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