1. Causality in the early period: Mutazilites and the birth of Asharite occasionalism; 2. Towards a synthesis of Aristotelian and Neo-Platonic understandings of causality: the case of Ibn Sina; 3. Occasionalism in the middle period: the cases of Ghazali and Razi; 4. The first as pure act and causality: the case of Ibn Rushd; 5. Light, existence, and causality: the Illimunationist School and the case of Suhrawardi; 6. The world as a theophany and causality: Sufi metaphysics and the case of Ibn Arabi; 7. Continuities and developments in Sufi metaphysics: the cases of Qunawi and Qayari; 8.

Towards an occasionalist philosophy of science: the case of Jurjani; 9. Causality and freedom in later Islamic philosophy: the case of Mulla adra; 10. Occasionalism in the modern context: the case of Said Nursi; 11. A discussion on Islamic theories of causality in the modern context.