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10. Richard M. Frank, ‘‘Moral obligation in classical Islamic theology’’,
Journal of Religious Ethics 11 (1983), pp. 204–23, esp.p.218 n. 19, with
Gimaret’s rejoinder in La doctrine, p.371, n.1.
11. Richard M. Frank, ‘‘The structure of created causality according
to al-Ash‘arı’’, Studia Islamica 25 (1966), pp. 13–76; citations at
pp. 44, 43.
12. Christian van Nispen tot Sevenaer, Activité humaine et agir de Dieu:
le concept de ‘‘Sunan de Dieu’’ dans le commentaire coranique du
Manar (Beirut, 1996), p. 367. The author signals a key article by
Michael Schwarz, ‘‘Acquisition [kasb] in Early Kalam’’, in Islamic
Philosophy and the Classical Tradition: Essays presented to Richard
Walzer (Oxford, 1972), pp. 355–87;aswellasRichardM.Frank’sreviewof
Gimaret’s Théories (see next note) in Biblioteca Orientalis 39 (1982),
cols. 705–15.
13. For references to this and other sources, see Daniel Gimaret, Théories de
l’acte humain en théologie musulmane (Paris, 1980), pp. 175–231; as
well as W. Madelung, ‘‘al-Maturıdı’’, in Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd edn,
vi, pp.846–8.
14. Gimaret, Théories, p.179.
15. Farabı on the Perfect State, ed. and tr. Richard Walzer (Oxford, 1985).
16. See the translation by Thérèse-Anne Druart, ‘‘Le Traité de Farabı sur les
buts de la Métaphysique d’Aristote’’, Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale
24 (1982), pp. 38–43.
17. al-Ghazalı, The Incoherence of the Philosophers, ed. and tr. Michael E.
Marmura (Provo, UT, 1997).
18. See Barry Kogan, Averroës and the Metaphysics of Causation (Albany,
1985).
19. Richard McCarthy’s translation and notes have been reissued as
Ghazalı’s Path to Sufism (Louisville, KY, 2000).
20. Ghazalı, Deliverer, inMcCarthy,Ghazalı’s Path, p.26.
21. Ibid., p. 23.
22. Ibid., p. 31.
23. Ibid., p. 35.
24. Ibid., p. 36.
25. Ibid., p. 53.
26. Ibid., pp. 54–5.
27. Ibid., pp. 55–6.
28. Ibid., p. 59.
29. Ibid., p. 72.
30. For the model, see Richard M. Frank, Creation and the Cosmic System:
Al-Ghazalı and Avicenna (Heidelberg, 1992); and for an elucidation of
sunnat Allah, see Christian van Nispen, Activité humaine, part 1,
pp. 57–251.
31. Ghazalı on Faith in Divine Unity and Trust in Divine Providence, tr.
David B. Burrell (Louisville, KY, 2001).
32. This term is not qur’anic, nor is it a name of God; cf. L. P. Fitzgerald,
‘‘Creation in al-Tafsır al-Kabır of Fakhr ad-Dın al-Razı’’ (PhD dissertation,
Australian National University, 1992), p. 34.
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