Series title taken from book jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Sabine Schmidtke -- Origins of kalam / Alexander Treiger -- The early Qadariyya / Steven C. Judd -- Jahm b. Safwan (d. 128/745-6) and the 'Jahmiyya' and Dirar b. Amr (d. 200/815) / Cornelia Schc̲k -- Early Shii theology / Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi -- Excursus I: Christian theological thought during the first Abbasid century / Sidney H. Griffith -- Excursus II: Ungodly cosmologies / Patricia Crone -- The Mutazilite movement (I): the origins of the Mutazila / Racha el-Omari -- The Mutazilite movement (II): the early Mutazilites / David Bennett -- The Mutazilite movement (III): the scholastic phase / Sabine Schmidtke -- The Shii reception of Mutazilism (I): Zaydis / Hassan Ansari -- The Shii reception of Mutazilism (II): Twelver Shiis / Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke -- The predecessors of Asharism: Ibn Kullab, al-Muhasibi and al-Qalanisi / Harith Bin Ramli -- Between Cordoba and Nisabur: the emergence and consolidation of Asharism (fourth-fifth/tenth-eleventh century) / Jan Thiele -- Early Ibadi theology / Wilferd Madelung -- Karramiyya / Aron Zysow -- Scripturalist and traditionalist theology / Binyamin Abrahamov -- Hanafi theological tradition and Maturidism / Ulrich Rudolph -- Philosophical theology / Peter Adamson -- Ismaili theology / Daniel De Smet -- Sufi theological thought / Martin Nguyen -- Occasionalism / Ulrich Rudolph -- Abu Hashim al-Jubbai's (d. 321/933) theory of 'states' (ahwal) and its adaption by Asharite theologians / Jan Thiele -- Theories of ethical value in kalam: a new interpretation / Ayman Shihadeh -- Theology and logic / Khaled El-Rouayheb -- Theology engages with Avicennan philosophy: al-Ghazali's Tahafut al-falasifa and Ibn al-Malahimi's Tahfat al-mutakallimin fi l-radd ala l-falasifa / Frank Griffel -- Twelver Shii theology / Reza Pourjavady and Sabine Schmidtke -- Zaydi theology in Yemen / Hassan Ansari, Sabine Schmidtke, and Jan Thiele -- Handbooks in the tradition of later eastern Asharism / Heidrun Eichner -- Later Asharism in the Islamic West / Delfina Serrano Ruano -- Egypt and the later Asharite school / Aaron Spevack -- Excursus III: The Coptic and Syriac receptions of neo-Asharite theology / Gregor Schwarb -- Theology in the Ottoman lands / M. Sait Özervarl -- Theology in Central Asia / Nathan Spannaus -- Theology in the Indian subcontinent / Asad Q. Ahmed and Reza Pourjavady -- Hanbali theology / Jon Hoover -- al-Mamun (r. 198/813-218/833) and the Mihna / Nimrod Hurvitz -- The Mihna of Ibn Aqil (d. 513/1119) and the Fitnat Ibn al-Qushayri (d. 514/1120) / Livnat Holtzman -- The religious policy of the Almohads / Maribel Fierro -- Interpretations of Asharism and Maturidism in Mamluk and Ottoman times / Lutz Berger -- Main trends of Islamic theological thought from the late nineteenth century to present times / Rotraud Wielandt -- Striving for a new exegesis of the Quran / Johanna Pink.