master of Quranic interpretation and theological reasoning Jaffer, Tariq. creator text bibliography Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. nyu 2014 monographic eng 1 online resource This study investigates the transformative contributions that Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī made to the Islamic intellectual tradition. It focuses on the ways that Rāzī exploited the rich heritage of ancient and Islamic philosophy to interpret the Qur'ān, and on the ways that he forged a methodology for Sunni orthodoxy by uniting reason with the Qur'ān and prophetic traditions (naql). The book proposes that Rāzī gave his intellectual agenda an indisputed authority in Sunni Islam by using the Qur'ān as a vehicle for his ideas. Razi's escape from taqlid in philosophy -- Razi's escape from taqlid in exegesis -- The Qurʼan's method -- Razi's engagement with the Muʻtazila -- The opponents of Muʻtazilite taʼwil -- Razi's critique of classical Ashʻarism -- Razi's integration of the Muʻtazilite interpretive method into Sunnism -- The epistemological criterion for taʼwil -- Razi's rationalist objection to scripture -- The priority of reason over scripture -- The rational justification for the Prophet's credibility -- Miracles and the boundaries of reason -- The reception of Razi's methodology in Islamic traditionalism: Ibn Taymiyya on Tazi -- Razi's appropriation of Avicenna's philosophical exegesis -- Razi's reception of Ghazali's interpretation of light -- Razi's divergences from Avicenna and Ghazali: light as the bestowal of knowledge -- Razi's exegesis on the soul (nafs) and spirit (ruḥ): structure and strategy -- The soul's quiddity (mahiyya) and its temporal origination (ḥuduth) -- The soul's relation to the body -- Razi's doctrine on the vital spirit (ruḥ) -- The soul's separability: sleep and death -- The Prophet's soul. Tariq Jaffer. Includes bibliographical references and index. Rāzī, Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar 1149 or 1150-1210 Criticism, interpretation, etc History Rāzī, Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar 1149 or 1150-1210 Islamic philosophy History Islam Doctrines History RELIGION Islam General Islam Doctrines Islamic philosophy B753.R44 J34 2014eb 297.2092 Jaffer, Tariq. (DLC) 2014013275 (OCoLC)875884448 9780199948000 0199948003 9780199345946 0199345945 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=856011 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=856011 N$T 141006 20200709060234.0 ocn892430112 eng