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From Dogma to Revolution
Five volumes reconstructing classical Islamic theology (kalam) as an anthropology: the attributes of God are read as ideals of human beings, and theology becomes a theory of liberation.
Introduction
From Dogma to Revolution appeared in five volumes in Cairo in 1988 and is the central part of Hanafi’s project “Heritage and Renewal”. It works through the topics of classical theology (kalām) – the theory of knowledge, God’s essence and attributes, divine justice, prophecy, eschatology and the imamate – and reinterprets them as statements about human beings. The unity of God becomes the unity of human consciousness and of a just society, and theology becomes a theory of liberation. The work is one of the largest attempts to reconstruct Islamic theology in modern terms.
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