God, Evil, and Suffering in Islam

"Examines the Islamic theological approaches to the problem of evil and suffering both in theory and practice. The study does not only engages with the themes of aging, sickness, and death, it also sheds light on contemporary questions such as disability, environmental crisis, and pandemics"--

List of contents

I. God and the Problem of Evil: 1. Mapping the problem; 2. God, angles, humans, and Satan; 3. Natural evil and the role of God; 4. Moral evil, freedom, and predestination; II. Human Nature and Suffering: 5. Aging, loneliness, and filial piety; 6. Illness and healing; 7. Death, resurrection, and the hereafter; III. Contemporary Questions: 8. Disability, the blind, and God's justice; 9. The environmental and climate change; 10. Plagues, pandemics, and Coronavirus; Conclusion.

About the author

Salih Sayligan is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University. He is the author Exploring Islam: Theology and Spiritual Practice in America (Fortress Press, 2021).

Product details

• Authors: Salih Sayilgan, Salih (Georgetown University Sayilgan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.10.2023
• EAN: 9781009377317
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0937731-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Islam, USA, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, RELIGION / Islam / General, RELIGION / Ethics, comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Islam / Theology, RELIGION / Islam / Koran & Sacred Writings, Theology, Ethics & moral philosophy, Nature & existence of God, United States of America, USA, Ethics and moral philosophy, Religious ethics, Islamic Theology, The Koran (Qur’an), Islam: branches and groups, Relating to Arab people, For graduate / post-graduate and equivalents, The Koran, Nature and existence of God and of the Divine, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples