Freethinkers Of Medieval Islam

Author : Sarah Stroumsa
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004113746

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Freethinkers of Medieval Islam by Sarah Stroumsa Pdf

This book studies the phenomenon of freethinking in medieval Islam, as exemplified in the figures of Ibn al-R wand and Ab Bakr al-R z . It reconstructs their thought and analyzes the relations of the phenomenon to Islamic prophetology and its repercussions in Islamic thought.

Author : Sarah Stroumsa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Free thought
ISBN : OCLC:654788383

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Freethinkers of Medieval Islam by Sarah Stroumsa Pdf

Author : Josef W. Meri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0415966914

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Medieval Islamic Civilization: A-K, index by Josef W. Meri Pdf

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Author : Josef W. Meri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 979 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135455965

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Medieval Islamic Civilization by Josef W. Meri Pdf

Medieval Islamic Civilization examines the socio-cultural history of the regions where Islam took hold between the seventh and sixteenth century. This important two-volume work contains over 700 alphabetically arranged entries, contributed and signed by international scholars and experts in fields such as Arabic languages, Arabic literature, architecture, art history, history, history of science, Islamic arts, Islamic studies, Middle Eastern studies, Near Eastern studies, politics, religion, Semitic studies, theology, and more. This reference provides an exhaustive and vivid portrait of Islamic civilization including the many scientific, artistic, and religious developments as well as all aspects of daily life and culture. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit www.routledge-ny.com/middleages/Islamic.

Author : Josef Meri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351668231

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Routledge Revivals: Medieval Islamic Civilization (2006) by Josef Meri Pdf

Islamic civilization flourished in the Middle Ages across a vast geographical area that spans today's Middle and Near East. First published in 2006, Medieval Islamic Civilization examines the socio-cultural history of the regions where Islam took hold between the 7th and 16th centuries. This important two-volume work contains over 700 alphabetically arranged entries, contributed and signed by international scholars and experts in fields such as Arabic languages, Arabic literature, architecture, history of science, Islamic arts, Islamic studies, Middle Eastern studies, Near Eastern studies, politics, religion, Semitic studies, theology, and more. Entries also explore the importance of interfaith relations and the permeation of persons, ideas, and objects across geographical and intellectual boundaries between Europe and the Islamic world. This reference work provides an exhaustive and vivid portrait of Islamic civilization and brings together in one authoritative text all aspects of Islamic civilization during the Middle Ages. Accessible to scholars, students and non-specialists, this resource will be of great use in research and understanding of the roots of today's Islamic society as well as the rich and vivid culture of medieval Islamic civilization.

Author : Sarah Stroumsa
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691176437

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Andalus and Sefarad by Sarah Stroumsa Pdf

An integrative approach to Jewish and Muslim philosophy in al-Andalus Al-Andalus, the Iberian territory ruled by Islam from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, was home to a flourishing philosophical culture among Muslims and the Jews who lived in their midst. Andalusians spoke proudly of the region's excellence, and indeed it engendered celebrated thinkers such as Maimonides and Averroes. Sarah Stroumsa offers an integrative new approach to Jewish and Muslim philosophy in al-Andalus, where the cultural commonality of the Islamicate world allowed scholars from diverse religious backgrounds to engage in the same philosophical pursuits. Stroumsa traces the development of philosophy in Muslim Iberia from its introduction to the region to the diverse forms it took over time, from Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism to rational theology and mystical philosophy. She sheds light on the way the politics of the day, including the struggles with the Christians to the north of the peninsula and the Fāṭimids in North Africa, influenced philosophy in al-Andalus yet affected its development among the two religious communities in different ways. While acknowledging the dissimilar social status of Muslims and members of the religious minorities, Andalus and Sefarad highlights the common ground that united philosophers, providing new perspective on the development of philosophy in Islamic Spain.

Author : Muḥammad ibn Hārūn Warrāq
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521811325

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Early Muslim Polemic Against Christianity by Muḥammad ibn Hārūn Warrāq Pdf

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Author : Alexander Knysh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317273394

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Islam in Historical Perspective by Alexander Knysh Pdf

Islam in Historical Perspective provides readers with an introduction to Islam, Islamic history and societies with carefully selected historical and scriptural evidence that enables them to form a comprehensive and balanced vision of Islam’s rise and evolution across the centuries and up to the present day. Combining historical and chronological approaches, the book examines intellectual dialogues and socio-political struggles within the extraordinary rich Islamic tradition. Treating Islam as a social and political force, the book also addresses Muslim devotional practices, artistic creativity and the structures of everyday existence. Islam in Historical Perspective is designed to help readers to develop personal empathy for the subject by relating it to their own experiences and burning issues of today. It contains a wealth of historical anecdotes and quotations from original sources that are intended to emphasize its principal points in a memorable way. This new edition features a thoroughly revised and updated text, new illustrations, expanded study questions and chapter summaries.

Author : Robert Pasnau
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192659026

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Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy Volume 9 by Robert Pasnau Pdf

Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best scholarly research in this flourishing field. The series covers all aspects of medieval philosophy, including the Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew traditions, and runs from the end of antiquity into the Renaissance. It publishes new work by leading scholars in the field, and combines historical scholarship with philosophical acuteness. The papers will address a wide range of topics, from political philosophy to ethics, and logic to metaphysics. OSMP is an essential resource for anyone working in the area.

Author : Hannah C. Erlwein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110619560

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Arguments for God's Existence in Classical Islamic Thought by Hannah C. Erlwein Pdf

The endeavour to prove God’s existence through rational argumentation was an integral part of classical Islamic theology (kalām) and philosophy (falsafa), thus the frequently articulated assumption in the academic literature. The Islamic discourse in question is then often compared to the discourse on arguments for God’s existence in the western tradition, not only in terms of its objectives but also in terms of the arguments used: Islamic thinkers, too, put forward arguments that have been labelled as cosmological, teleological, and ontological. This book, however, argues that arguments for God’s existence are absent from the theological and philosophical works of the classical Islamic era. This is not to say that the arguments encountered there are flawed arguments for God’s existence. Rather, it means that the arguments under consideration serve a different purpose than to prove that God exists. Through a close reading of the works of several mutakallimūn and falāsifa from the 3rd‒7th/9th‒13th century, such as al-Bāqillānī and Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī as well as Ibn Sīnā and Ibn Rushd, this book proffers a re-evaluation of the discourse in question, and it suggests what its participants sought to prove if it is not that God exists.

Author : Andrew Peacock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134146901

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Mediaeval Islamic Historiography and Political Legitimacy by Andrew Peacock Pdf

The Tarikhnamah is a history of the world and the oldest surviving work of Persian prose. This book examines it as a political and cultural document and why it became such an influential work in the Islamic world.

Author : Elizabeth G. Price
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783111027203

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The Barāhima’s Dilemma by Elizabeth G. Price Pdf

When debating the need for prophets, Muslim theologians frequently cited an objection from a group called the Barāhima – either a prophet conveys what is in accordance with reason, so they would be superfluous, or a prophet conveys what is contrary to reason, so they would be rejected. The Barāhima did not recognise prophecy or revelation, because they claimed that reason alone could guide them on the right path. But who were these Barāhima exactly? Were they Brahmans, as their title would suggest? And how did they become associated with this highly incisive objection to prophecy? This book traces the genealogy of the Barāhima and explores their profound impact on the evolution of Islamic theology. It also charts the pivotal role that the Kitāb al-Zumurrud played in disseminating the Barāhima’s critiques and in facilitating an epistemological turn in the wider discourse on prophecy (nubuwwa). When faced with the Barāhima, theologians were not only pressed to explain why rational agents required the input of revelation, but to also identify an epistemic gap that only a prophet could fill. A debate about whether humans required prophets thus evolved into a debate about what humans could and could not know by their own means.

Author : Daniel Garber,Steven Nadler
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191564031

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Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy Volume IV by Daniel Garber,Steven Nadler Pdf

Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his contemporaries and ends with Kant. It also publishes papers on thinkers or movements outside of that framework, provided they are important in illuminating early modern thought. The articles in OSEMP will be of importance to specialists within the discipline, but the editors also intend that they should appeal to a larger audience of philosophers, intellectual historians, and others who are interested in the development of modern thought.

Author : Theo Hettema,Christine Kooi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004495302

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Religious Polemics in Context by Theo Hettema,Christine Kooi Pdf

Studies in Theology and Religion,11 Polemics, as “the art or practice of disputation or controversy”, is a living issue in matters of religion, and is a major object of research for scholars in religious studies and theology. The second international conference of the Leiden Institute for the Study of Religions (LISOR), held at Leiden in April 2000, was devoted to the subject of Religious Polemics in Context, aiming at a further exploration of the notion of religious polemics, together with the unfolding of a wide variety of case-studies from various religious traditions. The volume contains most of the papers read at the conference, and offers contributions on general issues (e.g., by M. Dascal), as well as on particular topics in the fields of history of religion (e.g., Islam), ancient Israel and early Christianity, the history of Christianity, and the social sciences of religion. An annotated bibliography is added to this collection, which may stimulate a further study of the topic.

Author : Petrus Franciscus Maria Fontaine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Dualism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122194900

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The Light and the Dark: Dualism and non-dualism in medieval theology and philosophy by Petrus Franciscus Maria Fontaine Pdf