A Selection from the Table of Contents

1.

Explaining the Meaning of ‘Name’, ‘Named’, and ‘Act of Naming’.

2.

Explanation of Names Close in Meaning to One Another.

3.

On the One Name which Has Different Meanings.

4.

On Explaining that a Man’s Perfection and Happiness Consist in Being Moulded by the Moral Qualities of God.

5.

On Explaining the Meaning of God’s Ninety-nine Names.

6.

An Explanation of How these Many Names Resolve to the Essence.

7.

An Explanation of How these Attributes Resolve to a Single Essence, according to the School of the Mu’tazilites and the Philosophers.

8.

Explaining that the Names of God Are Not Limited to Ninety-nine.

9.

Explaining the Benefits of Enumerating Ninety-nine Names Specifically.

10.

Are the Names and Attributes Applied to God Based on Divine Instruction, or Permitted on the Basis of Reason?

 


 

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