Foundation of Norms in Islamic Jurisprudence and Theology

In this book, Omar Farahat presents a new way of understanding the work of classical Islamic theologians and legal theorists who maintained that divine revelation is necessary for the knowledge of the norms and values of human actions. Through a reconstruction of classical AshE ari-MuE tazili debates on the nature and implications of divine speech, Farahat argues that the AshE ari attachment to re...