Preface
Conventions
Part I: Introduction and Overview
1. Introduction
2. Development and Doxography
Part II: The Three Positions
Introduction
3. Acts are Proscribed (mahzur)
4. The Permitted Position
5. "No Assessment"
Appendix: Two Translations of "Before Revelation" Texts
Translation of a Section from al-Fusul fi l-Usul of al-Jassas
Translation of a Section from Kitab al-Mustasfa fi 'ilm a-usul
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
Part III: Thanking the Benefactor
6. God As Patron: Thanking the Benefactor
Appendix: An Early Debate on Thanking the Benefactor
Part IV: The Background
7. Conceptual Sources of the Problem
8. Abu l-Hudhayl and the Early Mu'tazilah
9. The Basrans: Moral Ontology and Epistemology
10. The Critique of the Mu'tazliah: Ignoring Ontology
Part V: Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index