02729nam a2200385Ia 4500001001300000003000600013005001700019006001900036007001500055008004100070040001300111020003500124020003200159035002100191035001800212050002500230082001400255049000900269100002100278245011600299260005300415300002700468504006400495505123700559533015701796650001701953650002001970655002901990710002102019776007702040856018502117910001202302994001202314999001702326ocn438941858OCoLC20200709055226.0m        d        cr cnu---unuuu090924s2008    nju     sb    001 0 eng d  aN$TcN$T  a9781400824526 (electronic bk.)  a1400824524 (electronic bk.)  a(OCoLC)438941858  a286750b(N$T)14aBP195.M6bV37 2008eb04a297.5222  aN$TA1 aVasalou, Sophia.10aMoral agents and their desertsh[electronic resource] :bthe character of Mu'tazilite ethics /cSophia Vasalou.  aPrinceton :bPrinceton University Press,cc2008.  axiii, 252 p. ;c25 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 239-246) and index.0 aThe 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.  aElectronic reproduction.bBoulder, Colo. :cNetLibrary,d2009.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. 0aMotazilites. 0aIslamic ethics. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aNetLibrary, Inc.1 cOriginalz9780691131450z0691131457w(DLC)  2007036849w(OCoLC)1700583034 3Bibliographic record displayuhttp://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=286750zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information  acpp3165  a02bN$T  c49595d49595