Series title taken from book jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Sabine Schmidtke -- Origins of kalām / Alexander Treiger -- The early Qadariyya / Steven C. Judd -- Jahm b. Ṣafwān (d. 128/745-6) and the 'Jahmiyya' and Ḍirār b. ʻAmr (d. 200/815) / Cornelia Schöck -- Early Shīʻī theology / Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi -- Excursus I: Christian theological thought during the first ʻAbbāsid century / Sidney H. Griffith -- Excursus II: Ungodly cosmologies / Patricia Crone -- The Muʻtazilite movement (I): the origins of the Muʻtazila / Racha el-Omari -- The Muʻtazilite movement (II): the early Muʻtazilites / David Bennett -- The Muʻtazilite movement (III): the scholastic phase / Sabine Schmidtke -- The Shīʻī reception of Muʻtazilism (I): Zaydīs / Hassan Ansari -- The Shīʻī reception of Muʻtazilism (II): Twelver Shīʻīs / Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke -- The predecessors of Ashʻarism: Ibn Kullāb, al-Muḥāsibī and al-Qalānisī / Harith Bin Ramli -- Between Cordoba and Nīsābūr: the emergence and consolidation of Ashʻarism (fourth-fifth/tenth-eleventh century) / Jan Thiele -- Early Ibāḍī theology / Wilferd Madelung -- Karrāmiyya / Aron Zysow -- Scripturalist and traditionalist theology / Binyamin Abrahamov -- Ḥanafī theological tradition and Māturīdism / Ulrich Rudolph -- Philosophical theology / Peter Adamson -- Ismāʻīlī theology / Daniel De Smet -- Sufi theological thought / Martin Nguyen -- Occasionalism / Ulrich Rudolph -- Abū Hāshim al-Jubbāʼī's (d. 321/933) theory of 'states' (aḥwāl) and its adaption by Ashʻarite theologians / Jan Thiele -- Theories of ethical value in kalām: a new interpretation / Ayman Shihadeh -- Theology and logic / Khaled El-Rouayheb -- Theology engages with Avicennan philosophy: al-Ghazālī's Tahāfut al-falāsifa and Ibn al-Malāḥimī's Taḥfat al-mutakallimīn fī l-radd ʻalā l-falāsifa / Frank Griffel -- Twelver Shīʻī theology / Reza Pourjavady and Sabine Schmidtke -- Zaydī theology in Yemen / Hassan Ansari, Sabine Schmidtke, and Jan Thiele -- Handbooks in the tradition of later eastern Ashʻarism / Heidrun Eichner -- Later Ashʻarism in the Islamic West / Delfina Serrano Ruano -- Egypt and the later Ashʻarite school / Aaron Spevack -- Excursus III: The Coptic and Syriac receptions of neo-Ashʻarite theology / Gregor Schwarb -- Theology in the Ottoman lands / M. Sait Özervarlı -- Theology in Central Asia / Nathan Spannaus -- Theology in the Indian subcontinent / Asad Q. Ahmed and Reza Pourjavady -- Ḥanbalī theology / Jon Hoover -- al-Maʼmūn (r. 198/813-218/833) and the Miḥna / Nimrod Hurvitz -- The Miḥna of Ibn ʻAqīl (d. 513/1119) and the Fitnat Ibn al-Qushayrī (d. 514/1120) / Livnat Holtzman -- The religious policy of the Almohads / Maribel Fierro -- Interpretations of Ashʻarism and Māturīdism 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 Qurʼān / Johanna Pink.