Ḥāl (theory of “states” in theology)

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Authors: Thiele, Jan;

handle: 10261/157862

Ḥāl (theory of “states” in theology)

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The notion of ḥāl was introduced into kalām (rationalist theology) to resolve the challenge posed to monotheism by God’s multiple attributes. The Muʿtazilite Abū Hāshim al-Jubbāʾī (d. 321/933) relied on this concept to conceive of attributes as neither existing nor non-existing ‘states’. Later, Ashʿarite theologians like Abū Bakr al-Bāqillānī (d. 403/1013) and Abū l-Maʿālī al-Juwaynī (d. 478/1085–6) also came to use the term within the framework of their theory of attributes.

The research leading to these results has received funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under REA grant agreement no 624808.

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Spanish National Research Council
Spain

Keywords

Ḥāl, Islamic theology, Theology, Islam

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