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Zain Ali

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    Dilemmas of Divine Forgiveness and the Reflective Muslim
    In Glen Pettigrove & Robert Enright (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Forgiveness, Routledge. pp. 30-44. 2023.
    This Chapter aims to address two dilemmas of divine forgiveness by drawing on the tradition of Islamic theism. The first dilemma relates to whether God or human beings have the standing to forgive. The second dilemma relates to the tension between God's justice and mercy, namely; is there a place for divine mercy, if justice requires punishment of wrongdoing? In response to these dilemmas, I maintain that God as well as human beings have a standing to forgive, I also contend that divine justice …Read more
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    Al-ghazālī and Schopenhauer on knowledge and suffering
    Philosophy East and West 57 (4): 409-419. 2007.
    The "major Islamic philosophers," writes Deborah Black, "produced no works dedicated to aesthetics, although their writings do address issues that contemporary philosophers might study under that heading." The emergent theme in this essay is that classical Islamic philosophy may be studied within a framework of aesthetics. To achieve this goal, the metaphysics of Abu Hamid al-Ghazālī (1058–1111) and the aesthetics of Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) will be brought together.
    Asian PhilosophyArthur Schopenhauer