Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Note on the Sources; PART One THE UMAYYAD PERIOD; 1 The Beginnings of Sectarianism; 2 The Khīrijites; 3 The Shi'ites; 4 The Murji'ites And Other Moderates; PART Two THE FIRST WAVE OF HELLENISM 750-950; 5 The Translators and the First Philosophers; 6 The Expansion of Shī'ism; 7 The Mu'tazilites; 8 The Consolidation of Sunnism; 9 Al-Ash'ari; PART Three THE SECOND WAVE OF HELLENISM 950-1258; 10 The Flowering of Philosophy; 11 The Vicissitudes of Shī'ism; 12 The Progress of Sunnite Theology; 13 Al-GhazāLi; 14 Sunnite Theology From 1100 to 1250
15 Theology and Philosophy in the Islamic WestPART Four THE PERIOD OF DARKNESS 1250-1900; 16 The Sclerosis of Philosophical Theology; 17 The Vitality of the Ḥanbalites; 18 The Transformation Of Shī'ism; PART Five THE NEW DAWN; 19 The Prospect for Theology; Appendix and Notes; Index
