A BRIEF COMPARISON BETWEEN SYSTEMATIC THEODICY AND THE QURANIC THEODICY

Abstract

One of the most debated problems in the history of philosophy is the problem of evil. However, this issue is not only a problem of philosophy but also that of the religions which have a tradition of revelation. Religions such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam deal with this problem to some extent. Their instruments for answering this issue differ from philosophical explanations used the reasoning process intensely. Philosophers and theologians have tried to answer according to the religious tradition they belong to while offering some solutions to this problem. However, while giving these answers, they did not always take religious tradition into consideration, and they often tried to offer philosophical answers. In this paper, I tried to concentrate on some verses of the Qur'an that can be associated with the problem of evil and to show the relations between the concepts used in this context. Subsequently, I discussed whether some of the parables in the Qur’an can be evaluated within the framework of theodicy. Moreover, throughout this study, I tried to reveal the differences between the argument and style in the Qur'an and the philosophical theodicy also called systematic theodicy.