the character of Mu'tazilite ethics Vasalou, Sophia. creator NetLibrary, Inc text bibliography Electronic books. nju Princeton Princeton University Press c2008 2008 monographic eng

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xiii, 252 p. ; 25 cm. The framework : the Mu'tazilites -- Reading Mu'tazilite ethics -- Ethics as theology -- Approaches to the study of Mu'tazilite ethics -- Theology as law -- Moral values between rational knowledge and revealed law -- Rights, claims, and desert : the moral economy of ḥuqūq -- The Baṣran Mu'tazilite approach to desert -- "To deserve" : groundwork -- Justifying reward and punishment : the values of deserved treatments -- Justifying punishment : the paradoxical relations of desert and goodness -- The causal efficacy of moral values : between sabab and 'illa -- The right to blame, the fact of blame : views of the person ab extra -- Moral continuity and the justification of punishment -- Time and deserving -- An eternity of punishment : the Baṣran justification of dawām al-'iqāb -- Moral identity and the resources of Baṣran Mu'tazilite ontology -- The primacy of revealed names : al-Asmā' wa'al-aḥkām -- Why not Dhimma? -- The identity of beings in Baṣran Mu'tazilite eschatology -- Resurrection and the criterion of identity -- Accidents and the formal reality of resurrected beings -- Appendix : translation from Mānkdīm Shāshdīw, "The promise and the threat," in Sharḥ al-uṣūl al-khamsa. Sophia Vasalou. Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-246) and index. Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. Motazilites Islamic ethics BP195.M6 V37 2008eb 297.5 (DLC) 2007036849 (OCoLC)170058303 9781400824526 (electronic bk.) 1400824524 (electronic bk.) http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=286750 http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=286750 N$T 090924 20200709055226.0 ocn438941858