This highly controversial treatise, written in the 12th century by one of Islam’s most prolific writers, takes a strong stance against fellow Hanbali traditionists, refuting those who espoused an anthropomorphic conception of God. The nuances surrounding the intense debate of figurative interpretation and literalism in the medieval Muslim world are clearly translated and accessible to the layperson as well as Islamic scholars, while detailed appendices delve deeper into the way medieval intellectuals interpreted ambiguous Koranic texts and provide thorough biographies of great theological thinkers of the Muslim world.
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'Abd al-Rahman al-Jawzi was the Imam of the Hanbalis and is considered one of the most prolific Islamic writers to date. Abdullah bin Hamid Ali is an Islamic chaplain at the State Correctional Institution in Chester, Pennsylvania. He lives in Philadelphia. Khalid Yahya Blankinship is an associate professor and chair of the department of religion at Temple University. He is the author of The End of the Jihad State: The Reign of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik and the Collapse of the Umayyads. He has also translated two volumes of The History of al-Tabari. He lives in Philadelphia.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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A Need in refuting Psuedo-salafism,
This review is from: The Attributes of God: Ibn al-Jawzi's Daf' Shubah al-Tashbih bi-Akaff al-Tanzih (Paperback)
This work is a must have in refuting the non-orthodox views of the new Pseudo-salafi cult that has plagued the Muslim world. It goes to show the absurdities of the old-school Hanbali anthropomorphists and how their da'wah was refuted by the Hanbali Ibn Al-Jawzi (r).
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An excellent translation of a work that is still relevant today,
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This review is from: The Attributes of God: Ibn al-Jawzi's Daf' Shubah al-Tashbih bi-Akaff al-Tanzih (Paperback)
This is a lucid and very readable translation of Imam ibn al-Jawzi's daf' shubah al-tashbih bi akaff al-tanzih, and it has the same relevance today as it did hundreds of years ago. Now and then, there are many claiming to follow the pure 'aqidah of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal. Ibn al-Jawzi shows them the danger of their anthropomorphic and literalistic ways, and how they have erred greatly in their acceptance and interpretation of certain traditions of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace.Abdullah bin Hamid Ali's footnotes are extremely valuable, as is the introduction and appendices. Amal Press also displays their usual, impeccable publishing quality and editing. It is too bad that this work was not published in hardcover; it deserves it. Highly recommended for anyone with an interest in Islamic theology, and for Muslims confused on the issue of how the Attributes of God are to be interpreted.
7 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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Essentially a Sectarian Work,
By Abu Zayd (NJ) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Attributes of God: Ibn al-Jawzi's Daf' Shubah al-Tashbih bi-Akaff al-Tanzih (Paperback)
This work is essentially a partisan work centered around an old controversy raging within Sunni Islam. The attribution of the book to the classical Muslim scholar Ibn al-Jawzi is misleading, as it contains more in the way of introductions, appendixes and other articles vigorously defending one side of the debate than the actual work of Ibn al-Jawzi, which is only a small portion of the work. The overall tone of the work is bitter and contentious, in the line of most polemical works.For non-Muslims, I would imagine this work to be of little interest. For Muslims, I would advise them to skip this work unless they have a particular interest in this narrow debate on one aspect of Islamic theology. But caution must be made to those who do choose to read this book that it represents only one side of the debate on Allah's names and attributes, and fairness would demand a study of the other side as well, from their own proponents. Abu Zayd
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