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Further reading
Arnaldez, Roger, ‘‘Khalk˙ ’’, in Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd edn, 12 vols. (Leiden,
1986–2004), iv, pp. 980–8.
al-Bayd _
awı, ‘Abdallah, T _
awali‘ al-anwar min mat _
ali‘ al-anz _
ar, tr. Edwin E.
Calverley and James W. Pollock, Nature, Man and God in Medieval Islam
(Leiden, 2002), pp. 603–39.
Frank, Richard M., Creation and the Cosmic System: Al-Ghazalı and
Avicenna (Heidelberg, 1992).
‘‘Two Islamic views of human agency’’, in George Makdisi et al. (eds.), La
notion de liberté au moyen âge: Islam, Byzance, Occident (Paris, 1985),
pp. 37–49.
Al-Ghazalı: The Ninety-Nine Beautiful Names of God, tr. David Burrell and
Nazih Daher (Cambridge, 1992).
Gimaret, Daniel, La doctrine d’al-Ash‘arı (Paris, 1990).
Théories de l’acte humain en théologie musulmane (Paris, 1980).
Nispen tot Sevenaer, Christian van, Activité humaine et agir de Dieu: le concept
de ‘‘Sunan de Dieu’’ dans le commentaire coranique du Manar (Beirut,
1996).
Notes
1. Parallel texts in the Qur’an: 3:47, 59; 6:73; 16:40; 36:82; 40:68.
2. Ghazalı: The Ninety-Nine Beautiful Names of God, tr. David B. Burrell
and Nazih Daher (Cambridge, 1992).
3. Summa Theologiae 1.1. Prol.
4. Robert Sokolowski, God of Faith and Reason (Notre Dame, IN, 1982;
Washington, DC, 1990); see David Burrell, ‘‘The Christian distinction
celebrated and expanded’’, in The Truthful and the Good: Essays in
Honor of Robert Sokolowski, ed. John Drummond and James Hart
(Dordrecht, 1996), pp. 191–206.
5. Ian Netton, Allah Transcendent: Studies in the Structure and Semiotics
of Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Cosmology (London, 1989), p. 22.
For a critical appreciation of this massively erudite treatise which also
calls attention to its pointedness, see Richard Taylor’s review in Middle
East Journal 44 (1990), pp. 521–2.
6. My source here is Richard Frank’s detailed account, ‘‘Kalam and
philosophy: a perspective from one problem’’, in Parviz Morewedge
(ed.), Islamic Philosophical Theology (Albany, 1979), pp. 71–95, with
abundant references to primary sources.
7. Ibid., pp. 78–9.
8. Daniel Gimaret, La doctrine d’al-Ash‘arı (Paris, 1990), p. 443. Onthis
significant difference, see Richard M. Frank, ‘‘Two Islamic views of
human agency’’, in George Makdisi et al. (eds.),La notion de liberté au
moyen âge: Islam, Byzance, Occident (Paris, 1985), pp. 37–49.
9. Gimaret, La doctrine, pp.443, 416.
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