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In Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation, Carl Sharif El-Tobgui offers a comprehensive analysis of Ibn Taymiyya's ten-volume magnum opus, Dar' ta'arud al-'aql wa-l-naql (Refutation of the conflict of reason and revelation), elucidating its author's foundational reconstitution of rationality through the multifaceted ontological, epistemological, and linguistic reforms he carries out.

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Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Mise en Scene Introduction 1 Contours of a Conflict 2 Why the Dar' ta'arud? 3 About This Work Part 1 Reason vs. Revelation? 1 Reason and Revelation in Islam before Ibn Taymiyya 1 Reason and Revelation, Reason in Revelation 2 The Early Emergence of Rationalist and Textualist Tendencies: The Case of the Law 3 Early Theological Reflection and Contention 4 The Mu'tazila 5 Non-speculative Theology and the Legacy of Ahmad b. Hanbal 6 The Mihna and Its Aftermath 7 Nascent Ash'ari Thought and the Early Kalam 8 Philosophy 9 The New Kalam and Subsequent Developments 10 Kalam and Falsafa in the Wake of al-Ghazali 2 Ibn Taymiyya: Life, Times, and Intellectual Profile 1 The Life and Times of Ibn Taymiyya (661-728/1263-1328) 2 Intellectual Profile 3 Character and Contemporary Reception 4 Ibn Taymiyya's Works 5 The Historiography of the Dar' ta'arud: Ibn Taymiyya's Assessment of the Intellectual Legacy He Inherited 6 The Dar' ta'arud in Context: Ibn Taymiyya's View of Previous Attempts to Solve the Conundrum of Reason and Revelation 3 On the Incoherence of the Universal Rule and the Theoretical Impossibility of a Contradiction between Reason and Revelation 1 Ibn Taymiyya on the Universal Rule and the Variety of Responses It Has Elicited 2 The Result of Figurative Interpretation (ta'wil) 3 Specious Rationality and Its Discontents: Reason in a Cul-de-Sac 4 Ibn Taymiyya's Project: Refuting the Universal Rule 5 On Reason Grounding Our Knowledge of Revelation 6 Knowledge vs. Conjecture: Conclusiveness Is What Counts 7 Not "Scriptural vs. Rational" but "Scripturally Validated vs. Innovated" 8 Further Arguments Regarding the Rational Contradictoriness of the Universal Rule 9 On the Universal Rule's Incompatibility with the Status and Authority of Scripture Part 2 Ibn Taymiyya's Reform of Language, Ontology, and Epistemology 4 Sahih al-Manqul, or What Is Revelation 1 Ta'wil and the Meaning of Qur'an 3:7 2 The Centrality of Context and Ibn Taymiyya's "Contextual Ta'wil" 3 The Salaf and the Authority of Their Linguistic Convention ('urf) 4 Analysis of Terms to Detect and Correct for Semantic Shift 5 A Case Study: The Terms wahid, tawhid, and tarkib 5 Sarih al-Ma'qul, or What Is Reason? 1 What Exists? Ibn Taymiyya's Account of Reality 2 How Do We Know What Exists? The Primary Sources of Knowledge 3 The Realm of the Mind: What Exists fi al-adhhan? 4 The Structure of Reason 6 Reason Reconstituted: The Divine Attributes and the Question of Contradiction between Reason and Revelation 1 Rational Inference and the Question of Qiyas al-gha'ib 'ala al-shahid 2 Ibn Taymiyya's Reforms Applied: The Question of the Divine Attributes 3 Concluding Reflections Appendix A: Summary Outline of the Dar' ta'arud Appendix B: Detailed Outline of the Dar' ta'arud Glossary of Arabic Terms Glossary of Proper Names Bibliography Index of Arabic Passages Index of Hadith Index of People and Places Index of Qur'anic Verses Index of Subjects

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