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Intellectual traditions in Islam / edited by Farhad Daftary.

Contributor(s): Daftary, Farhad
Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2000Description: xvii, 252 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 186064435XSubject(s): Islamic countries -- Intellectual life | Islamic countries -- Civilization | Islamic civilization | Muslims -- Intellectual lifeDDC classification: 909/.097671 LOC classification: DS35.62 | .I58 2000Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Aziz Esmail -- Intellectual life in the first four centuries of Islam / Hugh Kennedy -- Scientific and philosophical enquiry: achievements and reactions in Muslim history / Oliver Leaman -- The rational tradition in Islam / Muhsin Mahdi -- The limits of Islamic orthodoxy / Norman Calder -- Intellectual life among the Ismailis: an overview / Farhad Daftary -- Nasir Khusraw: Fatimid intellectual / Alice C. Hunsberger -- Reason and mystical experience in Sufism / Annemarie Schimmel -- Some observations on the religious intellectual milieu of Safawid Iran / John Cooper -- Woman, half-the-man? The crisis of male epistemology in Islamic jurisprudence / Abdulaziz Sachedina -- Present-day Islam between its tradition and globalization / Mohammed Arkoun.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West DS35.62 .I58 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182902211388

Papers derived from a seminar entitled "Intellectual Traditions in Islam," organized by The Institute of Ismaili Studies at the Mellor Centre, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, August 14-20, 1994.

Introduction / Aziz Esmail -- Intellectual life in the first four centuries of Islam / Hugh Kennedy -- Scientific and philosophical enquiry: achievements and reactions in Muslim history / Oliver Leaman -- The rational tradition in Islam / Muhsin Mahdi -- The limits of Islamic orthodoxy / Norman Calder -- Intellectual life among the Ismailis: an overview / Farhad Daftary -- Nasir Khusraw: Fatimid intellectual / Alice C. Hunsberger -- Reason and mystical experience in Sufism / Annemarie Schimmel -- Some observations on the religious intellectual milieu of Safawid Iran / John Cooper -- Woman, half-the-man? The crisis of male epistemology in Islamic jurisprudence / Abdulaziz Sachedina -- Present-day Islam between its tradition and globalization / Mohammed Arkoun.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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