Transcendent God, Rational World: A Maturidi Theology

Ramon Harvey engages with Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī's system and the Māturīdī school, combining rigorous study of Arabic texts with Husserl's phenomenology and analytic theology, exploring epistemology, metaphysics, and divine attributes, offering a contemporary Muslim philosophical theology that is true to the past and dynamic in the present, providing original and constructive answers to perennial theological questions.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 296 pages
Publication date: 06 February 2023
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Ramon Harvey engages in a lively dialogue with the Muslim theologian Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī (d. 333/944) from Samarqand, exploring his system and that of the Māturīdī school in the context of modern thought. Harvey employs a rigorous study of Arabic Māturīdī texts, drawing insights from Husserl's phenomenology and analytic theology. His exploration spans epistemology, metaphysics, the nature of God, and specific divine attributes such as omniscience and wisdom, creative action, divine speech, and the Quran. Harvey's systematic treatment of these topics demonstrates that a contemporary Muslim philosophical theology, known as kalām jadīd, can remain faithful to the past while being dynamic in the present, offering original and constructive answers to perennial theological questions.

Weight: 454g
Dimension: 152 x 231 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474451659