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12 - Islam and the Problem of Evil

from Part II - Interdisciplinary Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2017

By
Timothy Winter
Edited by
Chad Meister  and
Paul K. Moser
Chad Meister
Affiliation:
Bethel College, Indiana
Paul K. Moser
Affiliation:
Loyola University, Chicago
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The Cambridge Companion to the Problem of Evil , pp. 230 - 248
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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Hoover, Jon. Ibn Taymiyya’s Theodicy of Perpetual Optimism. Leiden: Brill, 2007.Google Scholar
Jackson, Sherman A. Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.Google Scholar
Kermani, Navid. The Terror of God: Attar, Job and the Metaphysical Revolt. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011.Google Scholar
Michel, Thomas. “God’s Justice in Relation to Natural Disasters.” In Theodicy and Justice in Modern Islamic Thought. Ed. Abu Rabi’, Ibrahim M. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010, 219–26.Google Scholar
Ormsby, Eric. Theodicy in Islamic thought: The Dispute over al-Ghazālī‘s “Best of All Possible Worlds.” Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schuon, Frithjof. “The Question of Theodicies.” Studies in Comparative Religion 8/i (Winter 1974).Google Scholar

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