Informationen zum Autor Maria De Cillis is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, where she is also the Managing Editor of the Shi'i Heritage Series. She has authored Free Will and Predestination in Islamic Thought: Theoretical Compromises in the Works of Avicenna, al-Ghazali and Ibn 'Arabi (2014) and has co-edited Shi'i Esotericism: Roots and Developments (2016) as well as a writing a number of journal articles and encyclopaedia entries. She has taught medieval Islamic philosophy and speculative theology at SOAS and at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her research interests include Islamic philosophy, Sufism, Shi'i esotericism and Ismaili philosophy. Vorwort Analyzes the theology of Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani, a key theologian from the Fatimid period Zusammenfassung Analyzes the theology of a key theologians from the Fatimid period, Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani Inhaltsverzeichnis List of AbbreviationsList of TablesAcknowledgementsNOTES ON THE TEXTINTRODUCTION PART ONE: DELINEATING AL-KIRMANI'S THEORETICAL SYSTEM1. The Plotinian Legacy and al-Sijistani's Influence: A Preliminary Approach to al- Kirmani's Understanding of the Intellect2. Al-Kirmani's Views on the Agent and the Nature of the Intellect3. Meritorious Determination: Outlining al-Kirmani's Cosmological Scheme4. The Human Soul and Providence5. Human Actions in the Realm of Acquisition6. The Intellect's Knowledge of Particulars7. Correspondences between the alam al-wahda and the 'alam al-dinPART TWO: ANALYSIS AND TRANSLATION OF CHAPTER EIGHT OF AL-KIRMANI'S KITAB AL-RIYADOrigins and Nature of the qada wa'l-qadar Ddebate in the RiyadFasl OneFasl TwoFasl ThreeFasl FourFasl FiveFasl SixFasl SevenFasl EightFasl NineFasl TenFasl ElevenFasl TwelveFasl ThirteenFasl FourteenFasl FifteenFasl SixteenFasl SeventeenFasl EighteenFasl NineteenFasl TwentyFasl Twenty-oneFasl Twenty-twoFasl Twenty-threeFasl Twenty-fourCONCLUSIONBibliographyIndex...

Vorwort
Analyzes the theology of Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani, a key theologian from the Fatimid period

Autorentext
Maria De Cillis is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, where she is also the Managing Editor of the Shi'i Heritage Series. She has authored Free Will and Predestination in Islamic Thought: Theoretical Compromises in the Works of Avicenna, al-Ghazali and Ibn 'Arabi (2014) and has co-edited Shi'i Esotericism: Roots and Developments (2016) as well as a writing a number of journal articles and encyclopaedia entries. She has taught medieval Islamic philosophy and speculative theology at SOAS and at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her research interests include Islamic philosophy, Sufism, Shi'i esotericism and Ismaili philosophy.

Klappentext

I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies

Medieval Islamic philosophers were occupied with questions of cosmology, predestination and salvation and human responsibility for actions. For Ismailis, the related notions of religious leadership, namely the imamate, and the eschatological role of the prophets and imams were equally central. These were also a matter of doctrinal controversy within the so-called Iranian school of Ismaili philosophical theology. Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani (d. after 411/1020) was one of the most important theologians in the Fatimid period, who rose to prominence during the reign of the imam-caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (r. 386/996-411/1021). He is renowned for blending the Neoplatonic philosophical heritage with Ismaili religious tradition.

This book provides an analysis of al-Kirmani's thought and sheds new light on the many layers of allusion which characterise his writings. Through a translation and analytical commentary of the eighth chapter of al-Kirmani's Kitab al-Riyad (Book of Meadows), which is devoted to the subject of divine preordination and human redemption, Maria De Cillis shows readers first-hand his theologically distinctive interpretation of qada' and qadar (divine decree and destiny). Here, al-Kirmani attempts to harmonise the views of earlier renowned Ismaili missionaries, Abu Hatim Ahmad b. Hamdan al-Razi (d. 322/934), Muhammad b. Ahmad al-Nasafi (d. 331/942) and Abu Ya'qub Ishaq b. Ahmad al-Sijistani (d. c. 361/971). De Cillis skilfully guides the reader through al-Kirmani's metaphysical and esoteric correspondences, offering new insights into Shi'i/Ismaili philosophical thought which will be of great interest to those in the field of Shi'i studies and, more broadly, to scholars of medieval philosophy.

Zusammenfassung
Analyzes the theology of a key theologians from the Fatimid period, ?amid al-Din al-Kirmani

Inhalt

List of Abbreviations
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
NOTES ON THE TEXT
INTRODUCTION

PART ONE: DELINEATING AL-KIRMANI'S THEORETICAL SYSTEM

1. The Plotinian Legacy and al-Sijistani's Influence: A Preliminary Approach to al- Kirmani's Understanding of the Intellect
2. Al-Kirmani's Views on the Agent and the Nature of the Intellect
3. Meritorious Determination: Outlining al-Kirmani's Cosmological Scheme
4. The Human Soul and Providence
5. Human Actions in the Realm of Acquisition
6. The Intellect's Knowledge of Particulars
7. Correspondences between the alam al-wahda and the 'alam al-din

PART TWO: ANALYSIS AND TRANSLATION OF CHAPTER EIGHT OF AL-KIRMANI'S KITAB AL-RIYAD
Origins and Nature of the qada wa'l-qadar Ddebate in the Riyad
Fasl One
Fasl Two
Fasl Three
Fasl Four
Fasl Five
Fasl Six
Fasl Seven
Fasl Eight
Fasl Nine
Fasl Ten
Fasl Eleven
Fasl Twelve
Fasl Thirteen
Fasl Fourteen
Fasl Fifteen
Fasl Sixteen
Fasl Seventeen
Fasl Eighteen
Fasl Nineteen
Fasl Twenty
Fasl Twenty-one
Fasl Twenty-two
Fasl Twenty-three
Fasl Twenty-four

CONCLUSION
Bibliography
Index