From the Divine to the Human

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Muhammad U. Faruque is Inayat Malik Assistant Professor of Islamic Thought and Cross-Cultural Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati.

Mohammed Rustom is Professor of Islamic Thought and Director of the Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam at Carleton University.

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Featuring the work of leading contemporary Muslim philosophers and theologians, this book grapples with various forms of evil and suffering in the world today, from COVID-19 and issues in climate change to problems in palliative care and human vulnerability.

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About the Contributors

An Anthropocentric Approach to Evil

MUHAMMAD U. FARUQUE AND MOHAMMED RUSTOM

1 Remarks on Evil, Suffering, and the Global Pandemic

SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR

2 The Existential Threat of Climate Change: A Practical Application of Avicenna's Theory of Evil

ROSABEL ANSARI

3 On Self-Knowledge, Divine Trial, and Discipleship

MUKHTAR H. ALI

4 Necessitated Evil: An Islamic Neoplatonic Theodicy From the Ismaili Tradition

KHALIL ANDANI

5 Seyyed Hossein Nasr's Metaphysical Theodicy

JUSTIN CANCELLIERE

6 Hume on Trial: Can Evil and Suffering Be Justified?

MUHAMMAD U. FARUQUE

7 Cultivating Prayerful Presence at the Bedside: From Mastery Towards Mystery

HINA KHALID

8 The Gifts of Suffering and the Virtues of the Heart

ATIF KHALIL

9 Cain, Systemic Evil, and Our Inhumanity

MARTIN NGUYEN

10 Practical Muslim Theodicy: A Ghazalian Perspective on Emotional Pain

JOEL RICHMOND

11 The Student and the Sage

MOHAMMED RUSTOM

12 Trials as Transformation in Islamic Chaplaincy

AILYA VAJID

13 Transformative Love Amid Suffering in Hilmi Ziya Ülken

TARANEH WILKINSON

14 Suffering as Metaphysical Narrative: Exploring an Islamic Theodicy of Authorship

CYRUS ALI ZARGAR

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