Series title taken from book jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Sabine Schmidtke -- Origins of kal am / Alexander Treiger -- The early Qadariyya / Steven C. Judd -- Jahm b. |Safw an (d. 128/745-6) and the 'Jahmiyya' and |Dir ar b. Amr (d. 200/815) / Cornelia Schc̲k -- Early Sh i i theology / Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi -- Excursus I: Christian theological thought during the first Abb asid century / Sidney H. Griffith -- Excursus II: Ungodly cosmologies / Patricia Crone -- The Mu tazilite movement (I): the origins of the Mu tazila / Racha el-Omari -- The Mu tazilite movement (II): the early Mu tazilites / David Bennett -- The Mu tazilite movement (III): the scholastic phase / Sabine Schmidtke -- The Sh i i reception of Mu tazilism (I): Zayd is / Hassan Ansari -- The Sh i i reception of Mu tazilism (II): Twelver Sh i is / Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke -- The predecessors of Ash arism: Ibn Kull ab, al-Mu|h asib i and al-Qal anis i / Harith Bin Ramli -- Between Cordoba and N is ab ur: the emergence and consolidation of Ash arism (fourth-fifth/tenth-eleventh century) / Jan Thiele -- Early Ib a|d i theology / Wilferd Madelung -- Karr amiyya / Aron Zysow -- Scripturalist and traditionalist theology / Binyamin Abrahamov -- |Hanaf i theological tradition and M atur idism / Ulrich Rudolph -- Philosophical theology / Peter Adamson -- Ism a il i theology / Daniel De Smet -- Sufi theological thought / Martin Nguyen -- Occasionalism / Ulrich Rudolph -- Ab u H ashim al-Jubb a i's (d. 321/933) theory of 'states' (a|hw al) and its adaption by Ash arite theologians / Jan Thiele -- Theories of ethical value in kal am: a new interpretation / Ayman Shihadeh -- Theology and logic / Khaled El-Rouayheb -- Theology engages with Avicennan philosophy: al-Ghaz al i's Tah afut al-fal asifa and Ibn al-Mal a|him i's Ta|hfat al-mutakallim in f i l-radd al a l-fal asifa / Frank Griffel -- Twelver Sh i i theology / Reza Pourjavady and Sabine Schmidtke -- Zayd i theology in Yemen / Hassan Ansari, Sabine Schmidtke, and Jan Thiele -- Handbooks in the tradition of later eastern Ash arism / Heidrun Eichner -- Later Ash arism in the Islamic West / Delfina Serrano Ruano -- Egypt and the later Ash arite school / Aaron Spevack -- Excursus III: The Coptic and Syriac receptions of neo-Ash arite theology / Gregor Schwarb -- Theology in the Ottoman lands / M. Sait zervarli -- Theology in Central Asia / Nathan Spannaus -- Theology in the Indian subcontinent / Asad Q. Ahmed and Reza Pourjavady -- |Hanbal i theology / Jon Hoover -- al-Ma m un (r. 198/813-218/833) and the Mi|hna / Nimrod Hurvitz -- The Mi|hna of Ibn Aq il (d. 513/1119) and the Fitnat Ibn al-Qushayr i (d. 514/1120) / Livnat Holtzman -- The religious policy of the Almohads / Maribel Fierro -- Interpretations of Ash arism and M atur idism in Mamluk and Ottoman times / Lutz Berger -- Main trends of Islamic theological thought from the late nineteenth century to present times / Rotraud Wielandt -- Striving for a new exegesis of the Qur an / Johanna Pink.