A comprehensive university thesis on its subject, in which the author draws attention to the importance of sound belief and its effect on the intellectual and civilisational life of the Ummah, and on the conduct of the individual and the morals of the community.
He highlights the evidence of the Prophetic Sunnah as one of the foundations of argument, stressing that theology ('ilm al-kalam) rests on the evidence of the Qur'an, the Sunnah and reason, and explains why the theologians relied on rational evidence alone in some questions, on transmitted evidence alone in others, or combined both in a single issue.
