Existence and Quiddity in the Later Ash''arite Kalam: A study on al-Iji''s al-Mawaqif and al-Jurjani''s Sharh al-Mawaqif

Existenceand Quiddity in the Later Ash'arite Kalam: A study on al-Iji's al-Mawaqif andal-Jurjani's Sharh al-Mawaqif - Hardcover

Author: Mohd Zaid Ismail

Publisher: Islamicand Strategic Studies Institute(ISSI) Malaysia, Kalam Research Media (KRM)& Ta'dib International

ISBN: 9789671131282
Price: RM88.00
Pages: 280pp
Weight: 0.590kg

Aimed atshedding some light on the intellectual process that historically led to thesophisticated elaborations and analyses of existence (wuj?d) and quiddity(m?hiyyah) by such later ??f? metaphysicians as 'Abd al-Ra?m?n al-J?m?, 'Abdal-Ghan? al-N?blus?, Mull? ?adr? and others, the present work explores theposition of a school of thought in the Islamic history—that is to say, laterash‘arisms as represented primarily by its two famous mutakallims, one from the7th/8th century of Hijrah and the other from the 8th/9th century, namely: ‘A?udal-D?n ‘Abd al-Ra?m?n al-?j? (d. 756 H.) and al-Sayyid al-Shar?f ‘Al? b. Mu?ammadal-Jurj?n? (d. 816 H.)—which was directly and actively involved in theintellectual debates about the nature of existence and quiddity that resultedin a creative synthesis of the aforementioned metaphysicians. It is thereforean attempt to survey how these two mutakallims, the former being the main actorand the latter being his commentator, dealt with the various positions adoptedpertaining to the nature of existence and its relation to quiddity. In sodoing, it selects al-?j?’s widely acclaimed kal?m manual, al-Maw?qif, and themost famous among its many commentaries, the one done by al-Jurj?n?.