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The Conclusive Argument From God
English
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About The Book
The Conclusive Argument from God is the master work of Shah Wali Allah of Delhi (1762), considered to be the most important Muslim thinker of pre-modern South Asia. This work, originally written in Arabic, represents a synthesis of the Islamic intellectual disciplines authoritative in the eighteenth century.
In order to argue for the rational, ethical and spiritual basis for the implementation of the Hadith injunctions of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), Shah Wali Allah develops a cohesive scheme of the metaphysical, psychological, and social knowledge of his time.
This work provides an extensive and detailed picture of Muslim theology and interpretive strategies on the eve of the modern period and is still evoked by numerous contemporary Islamic thinkers.
About The Author
Marcia K. Hermansen, Ph. D. (1982) in Islamic Studies, University of Chicago, is Professor at Theology Department, Loyola University, Chicago. She has published numerous articles on classical Islamic thought, mysticism, Islam in South Asia, Muslims in North America, and other topics.
Preface
In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Praise be to God who created the human race with a predisposition to the religion of Islam and right-guidance, and formed them with a natural disposition for the clear, tolerant, easy, monotheistic (Hanifi)' religion. Then they became beclouded by ignorance and fell to the lowest of the low and suffering overtook them. Then God was merciful to them, gracious to them, and sent the prophets to them so that through them they would be brought out from the darkness to the light, and from the constricted place to the vast expanse, and He made obedience to Him conditional upon obedience to the prophets; how great an honor
550
About The Book
The Conclusive Argument from God is the master work of Shah Wali Allah of Delhi (1762), considered to be the most important Muslim thinker of pre-modern South Asia. This work, originally written in Arabic, represents a synthesis of the Islamic intellectual disciplines authoritative in the eighteenth century.
In order to argue for the rational, ethical and spiritual basis for the implementation of the Hadith injunctions of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), Shah Wali Allah develops a cohesive scheme of the metaphysical, psychological, and social knowledge of his time.
This work provides an extensive and detailed picture of Muslim theology and interpretive strategies on the eve of the modern period and is still evoked by numerous contemporary Islamic thinkers.
About The Author
Marcia K. Hermansen, Ph. D. (1982) in Islamic Studies, University of Chicago, is Professor at Theology Department, Loyola University, Chicago. She has published numerous articles on classical Islamic thought, mysticism, Islam in South Asia, Muslims in North America, and other topics.
Preface
In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Praise be to God who created the human race with a predisposition to the religion of Islam and right-guidance, and formed them with a natural disposition for the clear, tolerant, easy, monotheistic (Hanifi)' religion. Then they became beclouded by ignorance and fell to the lowest of the low and suffering overtook them. Then God was merciful to them, gracious to them, and sent the prophets to them so that through them they would be brought out from the darkness to the light, and from the constricted place to the vast expanse, and He made obedience to Him conditional upon obedience to the prophets; how great an honor
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Published January 1, 2013
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