This thesis attempts to show that the freedom-determinism controversy in classical Islamic theology manifested itself through radical determinism, indeterminism and attempts to make compatible Divine Omnipotence and human responsibility. The first two approaches (represented by the Hadïth material of Bukhari and Muslim, and the treatise of al-Hasan al-Basrï) were closely connected to the first century political-religious upheavals, but the formulations of these two approaches were based upon two different interpretations of the Qur'an. The third approach (represented by al-Ash'arï and Ibn Hazm, among others) sought to preserve Divine Omnipotence while at the same time allowing for some notion of human responsibility so that taklïf would remain a meaningful concept.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.108764 |
| Date | January 1967 |
| Creators | Ede, David. |
| Contributors | Little, D. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts. (Department of Islamic Studies.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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