Islamic Theology
See entry on Islamic Theology in Oxford Bibliographies Online for an overview of Islamic Theology as well as a list of key books and articles discussing the formation and development of Islamic thought.
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic Philosophy by ISBN: 9781472569448Publication Date: 2015-07-16
Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780521785495Publication Date: 2008-05-22
Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of Religious Literature by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780415505079Publication Date: 2012-12-05
Islamic Creeds: A Selection by Call Number: BP166 .I78 1994ISBN: 9780748605132Publication Date: 1994-08-18
Islamic Philosophy and Theology by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781351511414Publication Date: 2017-08-01
Islamic Theological Themes: A Primary Source Reader by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780520281899Publication Date: 2014-05-31
Islamic Theology and Philosophy by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780873957465Publication Date: 1984-06-30The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought by
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780691134840Publication Date: 2012-11-11
Early Ibadi Theology: Six Kalam Texts by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9789004270251Publication Date: 2014-07-04Early Muslim Dogma: A Source Critical Study by
Call Number: BP166 .1 .C66 2003ISBN: 9780521545723Publication Date: 2003-12-04
The Formative Period of Islamic Thought by Call Number: BP166 .1 .W3 1973ISBN: 9781851681525Publication Date: 1998-02-01
History of Islamic Philosophy by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780415056670Publication Date: 1996-02-01Read the contribution of M. Abdel Haleem on "Early Kalam."- Islamic Creeds: A Selection by Call Number: BP166 .I78 1994ISBN: 9780748605132Publication Date: 1994-08-18
Rational Theology in Interfaith Communication by
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9789004151772Publication Date: 2006-10-27
Ahmad Al-Ghazali, Remembrance, and the Metaphysics of Love by
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781438459660Publication Date: 2016-04-01
Al-Maturidi and the Development of Sunni Theology in Samarqand by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9789004261846Publication Date: 2014-12-01
Basran Mutazilite Theology: Abū ʻAlī Muḥammad b. Khallād's Kitāb al-uṣūl and its reception : a critical edition of the Ziyādāt Sharḥ al-uṣūl by the Zaydī Imām al-Nāṭiq bi-l-ḥaqq Abū Ṭālib Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥusayn b. Hārūn al-Buṭḥānī by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9789004215757Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Classical Islamic Theology: the Ash`arites: Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780860789796Publication Date: 2008-09-28
The First Islamic Reviver: Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and his revival of the religious sciences by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780199989621Publication Date: 2013-12-30
Guide to the Conclusive Proofs for the Priciples of Belief by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781859641538Publication Date: 2001-01-31
Ibn Hazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9789004234246Publication Date: 2012-12-19
Ikhwan Al-Safa': A Brotherhood of Idealists on the Fringe of Orthodox Islam by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781851684045Publication Date: 2006-02-22
Razi: Master of Quranic Interpretation and Theological Reasoning by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780199345946Publication Date: 2014-11-01
Shi'i Doctrine, Mu'tazili Theology: Al-Sharif Al-Murtada and Imami Discourse by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781474404402Publication Date: 2017-07-01
Al-Suyūṭī, a Polymath of the Mamlūk Period : Proceedings of the Themed Day of the First Conference of the School of Mamlūk Studies by Call Number: EbookISBN: 9789004334502Publication Date: 2016-11-10
The Archetypal Sunni Scholar: Law, Theology, and Mysticism in the Synthesis of Al-Bajuri by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781438453712Publication Date: 2014-10-01
A COMMENTARY ON THE CREED OF ISLAM: SAʻD AL-DĪN AL-TĀFTĀZĀNĪ ON THE CREED OF NAJM AL-DĪN AL-NASAFĪ by Call Number: eBookPublication Date: 1950
Ibn Taimiya's Struggle Against Popular Religion : With an Annotated Translation of His Kitab Iqtida As-sirat Al-mustaqim Mukhalafat Ashab Al-jahim by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9783111662381Publication Date: 2013-02-07
Islam Without Europe: Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Islamic Thought by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781469640341Publication Date: 2018-06-04
Knowledge in Later Islamic Philosophy by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780199735242Publication Date: 2010-04-01Nature, Man and God in Medieval Islam: ʻAbd Allah Baydawi's Text, Tawaliʻ Al-anwar Min Mataliʻ Al-anzar, Along with Mahmud Isfahani's Commentary, Mataliʻ Al-anzar, Sharh Tawaliʻ Al-anwar by
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781417536573Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition: Reform, Rationality, and Modernity by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780804752503Publication Date: 2008-10-02
Theology and Creed in Sunni Islam: The Muslim Brotherhood, Ash'arism, and Political Sunnism by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780230102798Publication Date: 2010-06-21
Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798-1939 by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780521274234Publication Date: 1983-06-23
Atheism or Theism?: The Perspective of Saïd Nursi by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781532646799Publication Date: 2018-08-22
The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781405121743Publication Date: 2006-08-07
Modern Trends in Islamic Theological Discourse in 20th Century Indonesia by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9789004123052Publication Date: 2001-09-26
Modern Muslim Theology: Engaging God and the World with Faith and Imagination by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781538115008Publication Date: 2018-08-10
The Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin Reception of Avicenna's Physics and Cosmology by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781614517740Publication Date: 2018-10-22
Christian and Islamic Theology of Religions: A Critical Appraisal by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781138704497Publication Date: 2017-05-04
Christian Doctrines in Islamic Theology by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9789047442059Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Monotheism and Its Complexities: Christian and Muslim Perspectives by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781626165847Publication Date: 2018-06-01
A Muslim Theologian in a Sectarian Milieu: ʻAbd Al-Jabbār and the Critique of Christian Origins by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9789004139619Publication Date: 2004-12-03
Reason Unbound: On Spiritual Practice in Islamic Peripatetic Philosophy by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781438437644Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Sacred Misinterpretation: Reaching Across the Christian-Muslim Divide by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780802874146Publication Date: 2019-06-06
Key Subject Headings
Here are some key Library of Congress subject headings about Islamic Theology. The list below is just a sampling and not exhaustive.
Islam - Doctrines (Used for former heading Islamic Theology (Kalam)
- Apostasy from Islam
- Forgiveness
- Heresy, heresies, heretics
- History of theology
- Ikhwan al-Safa, (Brothers of Purity or Sincerity)
- Islamic cosmology
- Islamic Ethics
- Islamic philosophers
- Averroes, 1126-1198 (Ibn Rushd)
- Avicenna, 980-1037 (Ibn Rushd)
- Al-Basri, Hasan, 641 or 642-728 or 729
- Farabi.
- Ghazzali, 1058-1111
- Ibn al-Arabi, 1165-1240
- Ibn Hazm, Ali ibn Ahmad, 994-1064
- Ibn Miskawayh, Ahmad ibn Muhammad, d. 1030
- Nasafi, Muhammad ibn Muhammad, 1203/4-1288/9
- Suhrawardi, Yahya ibn Habash, 1152/3-1191
- Tusi, Nasir al-Din, 1201-1274
- Kufr (Islam)
- Pastoral theology (Islam)
- Shiites - Theology. Doctrine.
- Special schools and movements or sects
- Special Doctrines
- Works in defense of Islam. Islamic apologetics.