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Islamic Thought (Ma‘arif Islami) Book One

Author: Muhammad Sa‘idi-Mihr
: Amir Divani
Translator: Abuzar Ahmadi
Publisher: ABWA Publishing and Printing Center
Category:

• Publisher’s Foreword
• Foreword
• Reference
• Introduction: Religion in the Modern World 
• Rationalism
• Empiricism
• Scienticism
• Humanism
• Cognition Crisis
• Moral Crises
• Mental Crises
• Technology
• The Role of Religion in Solving Crises
• Religion and the Knowledge Crisis
• Religion and Moral Crises
• Religion and Mental Crises
• Religion and the Technology Crisis
• References
• Section One: In Search of the Object of Devotion 
• History of Worship
• The Perfection and Excellence of Islamic Theology
• A Glimpse of Mundane Religious Theology
• Why Theology?
• The Methods of Realizing God
• 1. The Way of the Heart
• 2. The Way of Experience
• 3. The Way of Intellect
• References
• Section Two:The Path to “Him”
• Understanding the Nature of God and His Attributes
• The Methods of Understanding God
• 1. Intellect
• 2. Nature
• 3. Investigation of the Natural World
• 4. Mystical Revelation
• 5. Referral to the Qur’an and Traditions
• Understanding Divine Attributes
• The First Perspective
• The Second Perspective
• The Third Perspective
• Purity and Understandability of Divine Attributes in the Qur’an
• 1. Unity
• 2. Divine Knowledge
• 3. Divine Power
• 4. Divine Life
• 5. Past and Future Eternality
• 6. Divine Wisdom
• 7. Divine Justice
• The Definition of Justice
• General Categorization of Divine Justice
• Divine Justice in the Holy Qur’an
• Several Questions and Answers regarding Theodicy
• a) Difference or Discrimination?
• b) Death and Nonexistence
• c) Commensurability of Sins with Retribution
• d) Divine Justice and Human Suffering
• Apophatic Attributes [sifat al-salbi]
• 1. Negation of Corporeality
• 2. Transcendence of Space and Direction
• 3. Negation of Incarnation
• 4. Negation of Unity with Others
• 5. Negation of Visual Perception
• References
• Section Three: Anthropology
• Various Branches of Anthropology
• The Importance of Anthropology
• The Creation of the Human Race
• Aspects of Humanity’s Being
• Humans and Animals
• 1. The Aspiration for Knowledge
• 2. The Aspiration for Beauty
• 3. Moral Aspiration
• 4. Aspiration to Worship
• The Elect of Creation
• 1. God’s Vicegerent [Khalifah] upon the Earth
• 2. The Highest Capacity for Knowledge
• 3. Divine Trusteeship
• 4. The World as Humankind’s Instrument
• 5. Obeisance of the Angels
• 6. Humanity’s Inherent Honor
• The Other Side of the Coin
• Compulsion or Free Will
• An Ancient Question
• Islamic Theology and Free Will
• a. Unity in Creation
• b. God’s Past Eternal Knowledge
• c. Generality of the Divine Will
• Qur’an and Free Will
• Human Perfection (Teleology)
• Worship and the Complete Human
• Ṣalāt, the Most Beautiful Aspect of Worshiping the Divine
• Secrets of Ṣalāt
• 1. Wuḍū
• 2. Call to Prayer [Adhān wa Iqāmah]
• 3. Standing Motionless [qīyām]
• 4. Intention [nīyyat]
• 5. Recitation [qirā’at]
• 6. Bowing [rukū‘]
• 7. Prostration [sajdah]
• 8. Testimony [tashahud]
• 9. Salaam
• References
• Section Four: Cosmology [jahān shināsī]
• Religious and Scientific Cosmology
• The Invisible [ghayb] and the Manifest [shahādat]
• The Justness [haqq madārī] of the World
• Finality of Creation
• Best Possible System
• Intrinsic Consciousness and Universal Praise [tasbīh al-‘umūmī]
• God and the Universe
• Unity in Action
• The Natural World
• Creation of the Natural World
• The Supernatural World
• 1. Angels
• 2. Jinn
• 3. Satan [shaytān]
• References
• Introduction
• In Quest for an Answer
• 1. The Results of Scientific Research and Investigation
• 2. Revelation
• Dependency of these teachings upon objective scientific arguments
• References
• Section One: The Human Essence
• Duality of Humans and Our Rationale
• Incorporeality of the Soul
• Aspects of Human Existence in the Qur’an
• Commentary and Interpretation
• References
• Section Two: Death
• Nature of Death
• Death as stated by the Qur’an and Hadith
• Fear of Death
• Religion and Fear of Death
• References
• Section Three: Philosophical Approaches to Human Immortality 
• 1. Corporal Reanimation
• 2. Subtle or Ethereal Body
• a. The Unincorporated [nāmutajassid] Soul
• B. Metempsychosis (Reincarnation)
• C. Life in the Barzakh and Qīyāmat (Resurrection)
• The Quality of Immortality according to Islam
• Barzakh
• Barzakh Body
• Ākhirat Life
• Ākhirat Body
• References
• Section Four: Life in the Hereafter as stated by the Qur’an 
• The Possibility and Necessity of Resurrection
• A. Possibility of the Resurrection
• B. Necessity of the Resurrection
• Depiction of the Ākhirat in the Qur’an
• 1. The Events Prior to the Resurrection
• 2. Winding the Horn
• 3. Advent of Ākhirat Life
• 4. The Reckoning of Deeds
• 5. Witnesses of Deeds
• 6. Retribution
• 7. Hell [jahannam]
• 8. Paradise
• References