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What this article offers is twofold: in the first place, it examines the interrogation of divine wisdom by İblis concerning the question of the existence of evil in the world as was reported by al-Shahrastanî in his al-Milal wa al-Nihal. In the second, it offers a preliminary assessment of the questions with a view to acsertaining their philosophical reference to the contemporary discussions on the problem of evil. The article is intended to show that İblis poses these questions in such a way as to exonerate himself from being the source of evil. It additionally assertes that in this interrogation one can find arguments that are the same with or similar to the ones advanced in contemporary debates in the philosophy of religion. Also suggested is that al-Shahrastanî nevertheless reduces the whole problem to the mere issue of sincerity of faith in God’s wisdom, avoiding thus having to deal with plausible rational explanations or the Qur’anic doctrines concerning the problem.

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