divine determination and human agency, the problem of evil, and juristic method in theological doctrine show that he articulates a theodicy of optimism in which God in His essence perpetually wills the best possible world from eternity. This sets Ibn Taymiyya s theodicy apart from Ash ar divine voluntarism, the free-will theodicy of the Mu tazil s, and the essentially timeless God of other optimists like Ibn S n and Ibn Arab ."
divine determination and human agency, the problem of evil, and juristic method in theological doctrine show that he articulates a theodicy of optimism in which God in His essence perpetually wills the best possible world from eternity. This sets Ibn Taymiyya s theodicy apart from Ash ar divine voluntarism, the free-will theodicy of the Mu tazil s, and the essentially timeless God of other optimists like Ibn S n and Ibn Arab ."
