Islam and the Fate of Others: The Salvation Question

Islam and the Fate of Others: The Salvation Question

by Mohammad Hassan Khalil
Islam and the Fate of Others: The Salvation Question

Islam and the Fate of Others: The Salvation Question

by Mohammad Hassan Khalil

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Overview

Can non-Muslims be saved? And can those who are damned to Hell ever be redeemed? In Islam and the Fate of Others, Mohammad Hassan Khalil examines the writings of influential medieval and modern Muslim scholars on the controversial and consequential question of non-Muslim salvation. This is an illuminating study of four of the most prominent figures in the history of Islam: Ghazali, Ibn 'Arabi, Ibn Taymiyya, and Rashid Rida. Khalil demonstrates that though these paradigmatic figures tended to affirm the superiority of the Islamic message, they also envisioned a God of mercy and justice and a Paradise populated by Muslims and non-Muslims. Islam and the Fate of Others reveals that these theologians' interpretations of the Qur'an and hadith corpus-from optimistic depictions of Judgment Day to notions of a temporal Hell and salvation for all-challenge widespread assumptions about Islamic scripture and thought. Along the way, Khalil examines the writings of many other important writers, such as Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, Mulla Sadra, Shah Wali Allah of Delhi, Muhammad Ali of Lahore, James Robson, Sayyid Qutb, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Farid Esack, Reza Shah-Kazemi, T. J. Winter, and Muhammad Legenhausen. Islam and the Fate of Others is both timely and overdue.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199314003
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 05/03/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Mohammad Hassan Khalil is Professor of Religious Studies, Adjunct Professor of Law, and Director of the Muslim Studies Program at Michigan State University. He is the author of Islam and the Fate of Others: The Salvation Question (2012) and editor of Between Heaven and Hell: Islam, Salvation, and the Fate of Others (2013) and Muslims and US Politics Today: A Defining Moment (2019). In 2015 he received the Michigan State University Teacher-Scholar Award.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Conventions Introduction: Rethinking Our Assumptions Chapter 1: Damnation as the Exception-The Case of Ghazali Chapter 2: All Paths Lead to God-The Case of Ibn 'Arabi Chapter 3: The Redemption of Humanity-The Case of Ibn Taymiyya Chapter 4: The Modern Scene-Rashid Rida and Beyond Glossary Notes Bibliography
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