Suffering in Mu‘Tazilite Theology: ‘Abd Al-Jabbār's Teaching on Pain and Divine Justice

Brill (2000)
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A study of the opinions of a prominent tenth-century scholar pertaining to different aspects of pain, including his theological explanation of the existence of human suffering as well as a historical survey of his Bahšamiyya Mu‘tazila school.

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