Anthropomorphism in Islam

The Challenge of Traditionalism (700-1350)

Livnat Holtzman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

448 Seiten

2018
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7486-8956-9 (ISBN)

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More than any other issue in Islamic theology, anthropomorphism (tashbih) stood at the heart of many theological debates, and was mostly discussed within the circles of traditionalist Islam. The way a scholar interpreted the anthropomorphic descriptions of God in the Qur’an or the Hadith (for instance, God’s hand, God’s laughter or God’s sitting on the heavenly throne) often reflected his political and social stature, as well as his theological affinity. This book presents an in-depth literary analysis of the textual and non-textual elements of aḥadith al-ṣifat – the traditions that depict God and His attributes in an anthropomorphic language. It goes on to discuss the inner controversies in the prominent traditionalistic learning centres of the Islamic world regarding the way to understand and interpret these anthropomorphic traditions. Through a close, contextualized, and interdisciplinary reading in Hadith compilations, theological treatises, and historical sources, this book offers an evaluation and understanding of the traditionalistic endeavours to define anthropomorphism in the most crucial and indeed most formative period of Islamic thought.

Livnat Holtzman is an expert in Islamic theology. She specializes in traditionalist theology from the inception of Islam until the 15th century, and has published extensively on the thought of Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya. Currently she is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Narrator and the Narrative: A Literary Analysis of Ahādīth al-sifāt Introduction I. A Preliminary Remark on Hadith and NarratologyII. The Framing NarrativeIII. The Embedded Narrative IV. The Narrator and His AudienceV. The Motives of the Narrator VI. The Narrator’s Role

Chapter 2: A Tale of Two Narrators: Some Historical, Geographical, and Cultural Considerations IntroductionI. Two Different Narrators II. The Proliferation of the Abu Razin Narrative III. Two Narrators and One Narrative: The Tribal Connection IV. The Proliferation of the Jarir NarrativeV. The Jarir Narrative and the Miḥna

Chapter 3: Gestures and Aḥādīth al-Ṣifāt IntroductionI. The Prophet’s Gestures: Iconic, Metaphoric, and Deictic II. ‘The Instance of Narrating’: The Narrator and His Audience III. The Performing Trend IV. The Ultimate Performer of Aḥādīth al-Ṣifāt V. The Predicament of the Traditionalists

Chapter 4: The Diversified Solution to the Challenge of Islamic Traditionalism: Aḥādīth al-Ṣifāt and Bi-Lā Kayfa IntroductionI. Drawing the Borderlines of the Traditionalistic Discourse II. The Earliest DebateIII. Transmission, Censorship, and EuphemismsIV. The All-Inclusive Tanzīh: The Ashʿarite Solution V. Expanding the Borders of the Traditionalistic Discourse

Chapter 5: Iconic Books and Gestures: Aḥādīth al-Ṣifāt in the Public SphereIntroductionI. The Iconicity of the Qadiri CreedII. The Three Dimensions of Kitāb al-Tawḥīd III. Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s Response to Kitāb al-Tawḥīd IV. Ibn Taymiyya’s al-Ḥamawiyya al-Kubrā and Two Iconic Gestures V. Iconic Gestures and the Hashwiyya

Final Remarks and ConclusionsAppendix I: Full Translations of Lengthy Traditions 1. A Marginal Version of Ḥadīth al-Nuzūl 2. The Lengthy Ḥadīth al-Ruʼya3. The Lengthy Ḥadīth Fidāʼ al-Muʼmin from Ibn ʿAsakir’s Tārīkh DimashqAppendix II: Full Translation of ‘the Ḥadīth of Allegiance’ of Abu Razin Appendix III: Chains of TransmissionAppendix IV: Chains of TransmissionAppendix V: Chains of Transmission

BIBLIOGRAPHYI. Primary SourcesII. Secondary Sources

Erscheinungsdatum	01.06.2017
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	790 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	0-7486-8956-7 / 0748689567
ISBN-13	978-0-7486-8956-9 / 9780748689569
Zustand	Neuware