{"product_id":"al-sanusis-sharh-al-muqaddimat-muhammad-bin-yusuf-al-sanusi-9781944904272","title":"Al-Sanusi's Sharh al-Muqaddimat: The Prolegomena to Islamic Theology","description":"\u003cp\u003eAl-Sanusi's \u003cem\u003eSharh al-Muqaddimat\u003c\/em\u003e is a commentary on his own \u003cem\u003eal-Muqaddimat\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eProlegomena\u003c\/em\u003e), a work composed as a preparation for his \u003cem\u003eUmm al-Barahin\u003c\/em\u003e, establishing the logical and epistemological foundations required for the conduct of \u003cem\u003ekalam\u003c\/em\u003e: the typology of judgements, the categories of rational necessity, impossibility, and possibility, and the conceptual framework within which the divine attributes can be rigorously demonstrated. It is prolegomena in the strict sense - not prefatory remarks, but the premises without which the argument cannot proceed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe thirty-three paragraphs are organised into eight sections. The first treats the typology of judgements - legal, customary, and rational - and their subdivisions, including the demand-forms of legal judgement, the stipulative category with its subdivisions of cause, condition, and impediment, and the three divisions of rational judgement into the necessary, the impossible, and the possible. Subsequent sections address volitional acts and the doctrine of acquisition; the varieties of shirk and the roots of disbelief and innovation; the classification of existent things; and the divine attributes of capability, will, knowledge, life, hearing, sight, and speech, closing with a definition of trustworthiness and a doxology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe commentary is a masterclass in the scholastic method. Al-Sanusi parses each formula component by component, identifying genus and differentia and specifying what each clause includes and excludes. He grounds abstract categories in concrete examples drawn from jurisprudence and rational demonstration, and where the Prolegomena gestures toward a proof, he sets it out in full. The polemical dimension is equally rigorous: the positions of the Mu'tazilah, the Jabriyyah, the Qadariyyah, the corporealists, and the dualists are presented with precision and systematically refuted. The treatment of shirk and disbelief expands into a rich taxonomy of historical communities and theological schools, and the discussion of the roots of disbelief develops into an epistemological account that constitutes a diagnosis of the errors the whole work is designed to forestall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders who work through this commentary will find themselves equipped - in method, vocabulary, and argument - to engage with the \u003cem\u003eUmm al-Barahin\u003c\/em\u003e and al-Sanusi's own commentary thereon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Muhammad Bin Yusuf Al-Sanusi,Musa Furber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1944904271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781944904272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Islamosaic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d","brand":"Muhammad Bin Yusuf Al-Sanusi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437787132159,"sku":"9781944904272","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_98645f9a-834d-4255-829d-3862c357d6e2.jpg?v=1777164053","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/al-sanusis-sharh-al-muqaddimat-muhammad-bin-yusuf-al-sanusi-9781944904272","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}