 |
|
|
Item Details
| Title:
|
INTELLECTUAL TRADITIONS IN ISLAM
|
| By: |
Farhad Daftary (Editor) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
|
£17.99 |
|
We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for
further information.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
186064760X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781860647604 |
| Publisher: |
I.B.TAURIS & CO LTD. |
| Pub. date: |
27 July, 2001 |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
Explores the pivotal role of the intellect in the legal, theological, philosophical and mystical traditions of Islam and its continuing relevance in the efforts of the contemporary Muslim world to address the challenges of modernity. |
| Synopsis: |
Leading scholars have collaborated here to undertake a broad study of an issue which has perplexed observers of the Islamic world. Hugh Kennedy begins with a survey on intellectual life in the first centuries of Islam while Oliver Leaman compares the concepts of scientific and philosophical enquiry in Muslim history; Muhsin Mahdi sets out the traditions for rationalism within Islam and the late Norman Calder's chapter demonstrates the limits of Islamic orthodoxy when faced with the impulse to enquire; Farhad Daftary provides an overview of intellectual life among the Ismailis and Alice Hunsberger focuses on Nasir Khusraw, the great Fatimid thinker and intellectual; Annemarie Schimmel writes on reason and mystical experience, the late John Cooper's study provides his observations on the religious intellectual milieu of Safavid Persia and Abdulaziz Sachedina examines the crisis of male epistemology in Islamic jurisprudence. Finally Mohammed Arkoun surveys the ways in which present-day Islam, grounded in its intellectual tradition, is relating its history and culture to the demands of modernity and globalisation. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
I.B.Tauris |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
No Cheese, Please!
A fun picture book for children with food allergies - full of friendship and super-cute characters!Little Mo the mouse is having a birthday party.
|
My Brother Is a Superhero
Luke is massively annoyed about this, but when Zack is kidnapped by his arch-nemesis, Luke and his friends have only five days to find him and save the world...
|
|
|
|
|