Whilst Christian approaches to the problem of evil have been much discussed,
the issue of theodicy in Islam is relatively neglected. A Muslim Response to
Evil explores new insights and viewpoints and discusses possible solutions to
theodicy and the problem of evil through the early philosophy and theology of
Islam as well as through a semantic analysis of evil (sharr) in the Qur’ān.
Reecting on Said Nursi’s magnum opus, the Risale-i Nur Collection (Epistles
of Light), Tubanur Yesilhark Ozkan puts Nursi’s theodicy into discourse with
so called ‘secular’ theodicy or ‘anthropodicy’, supported by scholars such as
Newton, Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Hume, and Kant. Her study oers a
fascinating new perspective on the problem of evil for scholars of comparative
religion, philosophy of religion, and Islamic thought.