TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jaffer,Tariq
TI  - Rāzī: master of Quranic interpretation and theological reasoning 
SN  - 9780199948000
AV  - B753.R44 J34 2014eb
U1  - 297.2092 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Rāzī, Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar,
KW  - Qurʼan
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - Islamic philosophy
KW  - Islam
KW  - Doctrines
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
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