Volume 1 Introduction Mustafa Shah 1 The Origins of Kalām M. A. Cook 2 Early Development of Kalām Josef van Ess 3 The Letter of Al-H. asan Al-Bas. rī Michael Schwarz 4 The Beginnings of the Mu‘tazila Reconsidered Sarah Stroumsa 5 The Origins of the Controversy Concerning the Creation of the Koran Wilferd Madelung 6 Elements in the Development of the Teaching of Al-Ash arī Richard Frank 7 Ibādism: History, Doctrines, and Recent Scholarship Valerie J. Hoffman 8 Zaydism: A Theological and Political Survey Najam Haider 9 Rationalism and Theology in the Medieval Muslim World: A Brief Overview Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi and Sabine Schmidtke 10 Early Imāmī Theology as Reflected in the Kitāb al-Kāfī of Al-Kulaynī Wilferd Madelung 11 The Spread and Persistence of Māturīdī Kalām and Underlying Dynamics Philipp Bruckmayr 12 The Science of Kālam Richard M. Frank 13 The Logical Structure of Islamic Theology Josef van Ess Volume 2 14 The Simple Ontology of Kalām Atomism: An Outline A. I. Sabra 15 Necessary Knowledge in Islamic Theology Binyamin Abrahamov 16 Al-Qāsim Ibn Ibrāhīm and Christian Theology Wilferd Madelung 17 Some Aspects of Imami Influence on Early Zaydite Theology Maher Jarrar 18 Al-Jāhiz. and Early Mu’tazilī Theology Josef van Ess 19 The Influence of Zāhirī Theory On Ibn Hazm’s Theology: The Case of his Interpretation of the Anthropomorphic Text “The Hand of God” Al Makin 20 The Non-Existent and the Possible in Classical Ash’arite Teaching Richard M. Frank 21 One Aspect of the Avicennian Turn in Sunnī Theology Robert Wisnovsky 22 Conceptions of Self-Determination in Fourth/Tenth-Century Muslim Theology: Al-Bāqillānī’s Theory of Human Acts in its Historical Context Jan Thiele 23 Ghazali and Ash’arism Revisited Michael E. Marmura 24 Al-Kindī and the Mu‘tazila: Divine Attributes, Creation and Freedom Peter Adamson 25 Mu’tazilism in the Age of Averroes Gregor Schwarb 26 From Al-Ghazālī to Al-Rāzī: 6th/12th Century Developments in Muslim Philosophical Theology Ayman Shihadeh 27 Propagating Mu’tazilism in the 6th/7th Century Zaydiyya: The Role of al-Hasan al-Rassās. Jan Thiele Volume 3 28 Al-Tabarī and the Dynamics of Tafsīr: Theological Dimensions of a Legacy Mustafa Shah 29 Accommodation and Resistance: Classical Mu’tazilites on Hadīth Racha El-Omari 30 Ibn Tūmart s Rational Proof for God’s Existence and Unity, and his Connection to the Niz. āmiyya Madrasa in Baghdad Frank Griffel 31 Occasionalism, Natural Causation and Science in Al-Ghazālī Jon McGinnis 32 Theology and Sufism Toby Mayer 33 Classical Islamic Discourse on the Origins of Language: Cultural Memory and the Defense of Orthodoxy Mustafa Shah 34 Al-Ghazālī on the Signification of Names Taneli Kukkonen 35 Ibn Rushd on God’s Decree and Determination (al-Qadā Wa-l-Qadar) Catarina Belo 36 Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī on God’s Knowledge of the Particulars Binyamin Abrahamov 37 Debating the Doctrine of jabr (Compulsion) Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya Reads Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī Livnat Holtzman 38 Ibn Taymiyya and his Ash arite Opponents on Reason and Revelation: Similarities, Differences, and a Vicious Circle Frank Griffel 39 Ibn Taymiyya’s Use of Ibn Rushd to Refute the Incorporealism of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī Jon Hoover