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God and Logic in Islam: The Caliphate of Reason

By John Walbridge

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0521195349, 9780521195348
Google Books ID
NnVJngEACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3491677 bytes)
Pages
228\228
Topic
Religion
Time added
2024-09-27 00:01:10
islam; islamic; deen; deeni; quran; qur'an; koran;

Description

This book investigates the central role of reason in Islamic intellectual life. Despite widespread characterization of Islam as a system of belief based only on revelation, John Walbridge argues that rational methods, not fundamentalism, have characterized Islamic law, philosophy, and education since the medieval period. His research demonstrates that this medieval Islamic rational tradition was opposed by both modernists and fundamentalists, resulting in a general collapse of traditional Islamic intellectual life and its replacement by more modern but far shallower forms of thought. However, the resources of this Islamic scholarly tradition remain an integral part of the Islamic intellectual tradition and will prove vital to its revival. The future of Islam, Walbridge argues, will be marked by a return to rationalism.

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