Undergraduate Module Descriptor

ARA2146: Islamic Theological Traditions

This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Norman Calder, Jawid Mojaddedi & Andrew Rippin, Classical Islam: sources of religious literature (London/New York 2001), esp. Chs 5-7.

Ignaz Goldziher, Introduction to Islamic Theology and Law, trs. A. and R. Hamori (Princeton, 1980)

William Montgomery Watt, Islamic Creeds: a Selection (Edinburgh, 1994)

Binyamin Abrahamov, Islamic Theology (Edinburgh, 1997)

Tilman Nagel, The History of Islamic Theology (Princeton, 2000)

The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology, ed. Sabine Schmidtke (Oxford, 2016)

The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology, ed. Tim Winter (Cambridge, 2008)