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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Stanford, California
Stanford University Press
2017
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Table of Contents:
- 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.