Islamic Theology and Extraterrestrial Life
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-0-7556-5092-7 (ISBN)
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Given the accelerating advances in exoplanet research and astrobiology, the book is at the frontier of science and Islamic thought. Contributors include a range of leading experts from Muslim theologians, scholars of comparative religion and philosophers, to historians, social scientists and natural scientists.
Shoaib Ahmed Malik is Visiting Researcher at St Mary’s University, UK.. He is the author of Islam and Evolution: Al-Ghazali and the Modern Evolutionary Paradigm (2021) and various peer-reviewed journals. He specialises as an interdisciplinary researcher in the field of Islam and science. Jörg Matthias Determann is Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar. He is the author of four books published by I.B. Tauris: Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life (2020); Space Science and the Arab World (2018); Researching Biology and Evolution in the Gulf States (2015); and Historiography in Saudi Arabia (2013).
Introduction Shoaib Ahmed Malik and Jörg Matthias Determann
1. Theological Information on the Existence of Intelligent Life Outside Our Solar System: Metaphysics, Scripture, and Science Hamza Karamali
2. Does the Qur?an Affirm Extraterrestrial life? A Hermeneutic Analysis of the of Surat al-Na?l (Q. 16:8) Moamer Khalayleh
3. Islamic Sacred Resources on Extraterrestrials and Their Possible Eschatological Implications Mohammad Mahdi Montasseri
4. Extraterrestrials and Moral Accountability: Nonhuman Moral Personhood through the Lens of Classical Sunni Theology and Law David Solomon Jalajel
5. Classical Muslim Thought and the Theological Implications and Possibility of Non-Human Entities Bearing Higher Intelligence Faisal Abdullah
6. Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life and Islamic Beliefs: Investigating Six Potential Conflicts Shoaib Ahmed Malik
7. The Alien in the Lamp? The Jinn and Alien Life in Islamic Theology Richard Playford
8. A Qur?anic Ufology? Seven Exotheological Hypotheses of the Indonesian ‘Islamic UFO’ Community Ayub and Ilham Ibrahim
9. Exotheology in Contemporary Egyptian Science Fiction – A Comparative Appraisal Emad El-Din Aysha
Erscheinungsdatum | 07.02.2024 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7556-5092-1 / 0755650921 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7556-5092-7 / 9780755650927 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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