Index
9/11, 3
a ‘mal, 86
7Abbasid dynasty, 81
Abdullah bin Umm Maktum, 146
Abu Dhabi, 169
Abu Jahl, 62
Abu-Salha, Razan, 76
Abu-Salha, Yusor, 76
adab, 122
Afghanistan
woman in, 1
aging, 8, 97. See also old age
human nature, 101
in Islamic theology, 8
loneliness, 99
population in the world, 98
air pollution, 157
Aisha, 116
alam, 57
American Society of Plastic Surgeons, 104
aql, 58
arrogance, 120
articles of faith, 126
Ashari, Abu al-Hasan, 60
aslah, , 71
Asma, Stephen T., 184
atheism,
Bahrain, 170
Bangladesh, 170
Baquaqua, Mahommah, 125
Barakat, Deah, 76
barzakh, 138
Becker, Ernest, 136
Biqai, 71
black suffering, 33
Blackburn, Simon, 13
Buddhism, 8, 113, 145
aging, 17
asceticism, 17
on death, 17
eightfold path, 18
on evil and suffering,
four noble truths, 18
monk, 17
sickness, 17
Burger, Peter, 16
burial, 9
Busiri, Imam, 117
Cairo radio, 155
California, 55
Cambridge Central Mosque, 168
Camus, Albert, 31
Canada, 128
Chapel Hill, 76
Chicago, 169
Coastal Carolina University, 2
Compassion Award, 36
Confucianism, 105
coronavirus, 9, 171
and burials, 177
and funerals, 176
and God’s names, 173
and Islamic law, 180
and martyrdom, 176
and science, 178
spiritual responses to, 178
Croatia, 3
Damascus, 103
darra, 57
Darwin, Charles, 26
Dawkins, Richard, 3
day of judgment, 138
de Lange, Frits, 101
death, 4, 9, 56, 66, 68, 98
contemplation of, 133
as the creation of God, 130
fear of, 4
life after, 126
in Muhammad’s prayer, 133
in prayer, 134
rituals of, 137
despair, 120
dhikr, 122
disability, 9, 143, 148
in Buddhism, 145
and children, 145
in Christianity, 146
definitions, 144
in the Greek and Roman cultures, 145
in Hinduism, 145
in Islamic law, 150
in Judaism, 146
and leadership, 150
models of, 144
and predestination, 153
in the Qur’an,
and spirituality, 154
in the United States, 144
in the world, 144
disease, 115
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 29
Dugdale, Lydia S., 104
eco-jihad, 167
eco-mosque, 168
Ehrman, Bart D., 2
eid prayer, 151
envy, 120
Epicurus on evil, 24
Europe, 183
euthanasia, 133
evidential problem of evil, 28
Garden of Eden, 22
German Federal Ministry, 169
God, 1
attributes, 40
and creation, 159
and the creation natural evil, 58
and disability, 144
grace, 62
as the healer, 115
jalali and jamali names,
manifestation of, 1
names of,
natural evil and names, 65
nearness and distance, 40
the source of peace, 44
wisdom of, 60
Görmez, Mehmet, 178
grace, 110
Green Mosque Project, 168
Green Ramadan, 169
hafiz, 155
Hakkı, Erzurumlu İbrahim, 74
Halverson, Jeffry R., 2
Harvard University, 143
hatred, 120
headscarf, 143
health, 113
heaven, 126
heedlessness, 120
hell, 126
Hick, John, 23
hijama, 117
Hinduism, 145
Hitler, Adolf, 129
Holocaust, 33
Holy Spirit, 114
Hoover, Calvin, 129
hudud, 150
huffaz al-Qur’an, 155
humanocentric theism, 34
Hume, David on evil, 25
humility, 165
Husayn ibn Ali, 84
Hussein, Saddam, 129
huzn, 57
ibadat, 150
Ibn al-Munayyir, 71
Ibrahim, the Prophet’s son, 131
ikhlas, 122
ikhwah al-thalathah, 60
illness, 68, 98, 116. See also sickness
as God’s creation, 115
spiritual illness, 120
and spiritual progress, 118
imam, 150
Indonesia, 170
innocent suffering,
iqtisad, 164
Iran, 1
Ireland, 3
Irenaeus, 24
Israeli, 3
itikaf, 174
iwad, 63
Jabriya, 80
Jahm bin Safwan, 80
janaiz, 136
Jessop, Christine, 128
Jews, 3
jihad al-nafs, 121
Jitmoud, Abdul Munim Sombat, 35
Jitmoud, Salahuddin, 35
Joe Biden, 143
John the Baptist, 109
ju, 122
Jubbai, Abu Ali, 60
Jung, Carl Gustav, 20
Juwayni, 2
kabad, 87
kabira, 84
Keller, Nuh Ha Mim, 74
Kentucky, 35
khalifah, 162
Khamenei, Ayatollah Ali, 176
Kharijites, 85
khayr, 57
Khidr, 87
King Jr, Martin Luther, 183
kufr, 44
Kuwait, 170
Mackie, J. L., 26
mahabba, 122
Maimonides,
Manichaeism, 15
marifa, 122
martyrdom, 176
Mary, 45
Masjid al-Nabawi, 148
Mawlud, Imam Muhammad, 122
mental illness, 14
mercy, 5
Mill, John Stuart, 25
minbar, 151
Minkara, Sara, 143
Misri, Niyazi, 111
monk, 98
monotheism, 37
Morin, Guy Paul, 128
Morocco, 168
mortal sinner, 85
mortality, 112
muamalat, 150
muezzin, 148
Muhammad, 36, 56, 155, 163, 164
death of, 131
and disability, 149
on diseases of the heart, 120
on healing, 116
mukhalafat al-nafs, 122
Murjiites, 85
musiba, 57
Mustapha Pasha Mosque, 155
Mutazilites, 8, 61
on animal suffering, 65
on innocent suffering, 63
on natural evil, 59
on predestination, 81
Myanmar, 180
natural evil, 14
Netherlands, 100
New York, 125
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 32
Nigeria, 183
North America, 183
North Carolina State University, 76
Pacific Ocean, 6
pain, 112
patience, 120
peacock, 67
Persian, 103
physical pain, 14
plagues, 9
Plato, 145
poetry, 7
pollution, 157
polytheism, 37
practical theodicy, 187
Princeton University, 112
prison, 89
pulpit, 152
repentance, 55
Rifat, Shaykh Muhammad, 155
Roman Catholic Church, 114
Roman Empire, 15
Roth, Philip, 99
Russell, Bertrand, 4
Russia, 183
sacraments, 114
sadaqa, 62
salat, 123
salat al-istisqa, 56
samt, 122
sayyia, 57
Serbia, 3
Shabbi, Abu al-Qasim, 93
shahadah, 137
shaqawa, 57
sharia, 161
sharr, 57
shawq, 122
Shiite, 7
Shirazi, Qutb al-Din, 70
Shirazi, Saadi, 170
shirk, 44
Solomon, 50
South America, 183
Soviet Russia, 7
Sri Lanka, 177
Stevens, Cat, 6
su’, 57
Sudan, 170
suicide, 132
Sultan, Sohaib, 112
Sunna, 167
Surat al-Fatiha, 138
Surat al-Yasin, 137
Suyuti, 46
Swinton, John, 187
Syria, 180
ta’ziya, 138
tark al-shahwa, 122
tawadu, 122
tazkiyah al-nafs, 121
tibb al-nabawi, 117
Turkey, 1
Turkish language, 7
Turner, Colin, 82
Umayyad dynasty, 80
United Arab Emirates, 170
United Kingdom, 99
universe, 160
University of Cambridge, 168
University of North Carolina, 76
Uthman bin Affan, 84
uzla, 122
wahy, 179
wara, 122
wasiya, 107
Weber, Max, 16
Wellesley College, 143
West Africa, 125
World War I and II, 7
Yemen, 180
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