The story of reason in Islam /

In The Story of Reason in Islam, leading public intellectual and political activist Sari Nusseibeh narrates a sweeping intellectual history--a quest for knowledge inspired by the Qu'ran and its language, a quest that employed Reason in the service of Faith. Eschewing the conventional separation...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nusseibeh, Sari (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]
Colección:Cultural memory in the present.
Temas:
Faith and reason > Islam > History.
Islamic philosophy > History.
Islam et raison > Histoire.
Philosophie islamique > Histoire.
RELIGION > Islam > General.
Faith and reason > Islam
Islamic philosophy
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The Arabian desert
  • The daunting idea of God
  • Free will and determinism
  • The Qur'an : created or eternal?
  • From Wasil to Ibn Hanbal
  • Early Islam : literacy, conflict, and expansion
  • Speculative discourse : a style
  • Discourse : in pursuit of the ultimate answers
  • Law and morality
  • Al-Ma'mun and the devils' banquets
  • The language-logic debate
  • Back to the human will, and language
  • Expanding the view
  • An interlude : caliph, imam and philosopher-king
  • Philosophy and politics
  • The philosophers' "frenzy"
  • Back to wine and logic
  • Motion and light
  • The nature of truth
  • Fardajan and beyond
  • The cosmos
  • Cosmic lights
  • Fast forward
  • Language and reason : the dilemma.

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