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Despite its status as one of the great traditions of Sunni Islamic systematic theology, the Māturīdī school and its major texts have remained largely inaccessible to a Western audience. As the first reader of Māturīdī theology ever produced in a Western language, this volume meets an urgent need among scholars and general readers. It features selections ranging from the founder, Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī, to key texts from the broader Māturīdī tradition up to the 18th century. Each selection includes the original Arabic text and an annotated English translation, preceded by a short introduction. The volume's structure mirrors the classical compendia of Islamic systematic theology, known as kalām , exploring questions of Epistemology and Ontology; Metaphysics; Prophethood; Faith, Knowledge and Acts; and Free Will, Predestination, and the Problem of Evil.

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Born 1975; Professor of Islamic Doctrine at the Centre for Islamic Theology, University of Tübingen (Germany). Born 1985; 2013 PhD, Emory University; 2013−18 Assistant Professor of Religion at Wofford College in South Carolina, USA; since 2020 Associate Professor of Religion. Born 1984; 2014 PhD, New York University; since 2014 Middle Eastern Studies Librarian and since 2017 History Coordinator for The University of Texas Libraries; currently Mellon Fellow for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage with the Rare Book School, Charlottesville.

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