Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

Scholastic Theology (Kalam)

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• Introduction
• Foreword
• Lesson One: Scholastic Theology
• The origins of kalaam
• Researching or following?
• The early issues
• Rational and traditional debate
• Lesson Two: Scholastic theology, a definition 
• The name
• Schools of scholastic theology
• Lesson Three: The Mu’tazilites (1)
• Monotheism
• Lesson Four: The Mu’tazilites (2)
• The origin of Justice
• Monotheism
• The middle way
• Enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong
• Lesson Five: The Mu’tazilites (3)
• The Divine
• Natural science
• Man
• Social and political issues
• The process of change and history
• Lesson Six: The Ash’arites
• Lesson Seven: The Shia (1)
• Lesson Eight: The Shia (2)
• 1. Monotheism
• 2. Justice
• 3. Freewill and choice
• 4. Inherent good and repugnance
• 5. Graciousness and opting for what is in the best interest of man
• 6. Originality of the intellect, its independence and authoritativeness
• 7. The aim behind God’s Actions
• 8. Bada’, or change of mind, of the Divine Action is acceptable
• 9. Seeing God: The Mu’tazilites vehemently deny this question
• 10. The belief of the godless
• 11. The infallibility of the Prophets and the Imams
• 12. Forgiveness and intercession