Abstract
Abstract The challenge of evil to rational Abrahamic religions has clearly been articulated in modern philosophy of religion predicated on the incompatibility of the omnipotence, omnibenevolence, and omniscience of God with the existence of evils. Even within the Islamic theological and philosophical traditions, there is a venerable history of theodicies and defences of a good God and the efficacy of human free will. That is the context in which we wish to locate the contributions in this special issue that examine the ways in which evil is considered in Islamic philosophical accounts (particularly of the Šiʿi traditions) from the classical period to the present.
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In contrast to Mazdaism, Manichaeism and ancient Gnosis, which limit the power of God by a counter-principle in order to exonerate him from any direct causal responsibility for evil, traditional (Abrahamic) monotheisms often place God at the centre of all metaphysics: there can be neither being, meaning, or value without God
On the face of it, the scriptural sources in Islam propose three types of positions: on the existence of God’s goodness and justice (Quran 3.18, 55.60 and so forth), on God’s creative agency with respect to all things including evil, and on the human responsibility of humans for evil that they perform
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