This book presents selected essays on the epistemological foundation of the Islamic world-system, in the light of the exegesis of the Quran, to develop existing understandings of Islamic economics. A selection of key contributions by one of the w...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology
(Izdošanas datums: 31-May-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399521970)
Offers an unprecedented theological investigation into al-Ja i?s social empiricism. While it may seem paradoxical to combine trust in rational religion with distrust of human reason, this is exactly what a group of understudied Muslim the...Lasīt vairāk
Focusing on Abu ?amid al-Ghazali (d. 1111) one of the foremost scholars and authorities in the Muslim world who is central to the Islamic intellectual tradition this book embarks on a study of doubt (shakk) and certainty (yaqin)...Lasīt vairāk
This is the second of several sourcebooks charting the reception of Avicenna in the Islamic East in the 12th-13th centuries CE. It translates and analyzes hundreds of passages on topics in logic, philosophy of language, and epistemology....Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Scripture and Theology
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Dec-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399510813)
Tawatur is the concept that information yields certainty if acquired through a sufficient number of independent channels. Tawatur in Islamic Thought is an attempt to unravel the twisted historical threads of the conception and usage...Lasīt vairāk
This book marks a significant contribution to the debate around Ibn Arabis religious pluralism, focusing on his multifaceted approach to non-Abrahamic religions. For nearly eight hundred years, the writings and ideas of the great Spanish Sufi mast...Lasīt vairāk
Reflection on knowledge is often assumed to have emerged with Greek philosophy. Earlier and contemporary modes of thinking in the ancient Near East, including ancient Israel, are assumed to be archaic and often left out of the picture. Against this v...Lasīt vairāk
A rich anthology of works on knowledge in Islam illuminated by insightful commentary from a leading scholar in the fieldThe notion of esoteric knowledge is one of the pillars of Islamic intellectual tradition. Though most visible in...Lasīt vairāk
The concept of the Islamization of knowledge was introduced by Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas in the late 1970s. It aimed to detach knowledge from Western culture and civilization in order to replace it with Islamic concepts, frameworks and values....Lasīt vairāk
Focusing on Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d. 1111) - one of the foremost scholars and authorities in the Muslim world who is central to the Islamic intellectual tradition - this book embarks on a study of doubt (shakk) and certainty (yaqin) in his epistemol...Lasīt vairāk
Muhammad Iqbal (d. 1938) was one of the most influential modernist Islamic thinkers of the early twentieth century. His work as a poet, politician, philosopher, and public intellectual was widely recognized in his lifetime and plays a major role...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : McGill-Queen's Studies in Modern Islamic Thought
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Aug-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN-13: 9780228006589)
Muhammad Iqbal (d. 1938) was one of the most influential modernist Islamic thinkers of the early twentieth century. His work as a poet, politician, philosopher, and public intellectual was widely recognized in his lifetime and plays a major role...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines all verses of the Quran involving knowledge related concepts. It begins with the argument that an analysis of the Quranic concept of ignorance points to epistemic virtues that can pave our way towards gaining knowledge and/or un...Lasīt vairāk
This work engages in a constructive, yet subtle, dialogue with the nuanced accounts of sensory intentionality and empirical knowledge offered by the Islamic philosopher Avicenna.This discourse has two main objectives: (1) providing an inter...Lasīt vairāk
The fields of morality and ethics have been left out significantly from socio-scientific study in general and in economics and finance in particular. Yet this book argues that in this age of post-modernist analytical inquiry, the study of morality...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines all verses of the Quran involving knowledge related concepts. It begins with the argument that an analysis of the Quranic concept of ignorance points to epistemic virtues that can pave our way towards gaining knowledge and/or un...Lasīt vairāk
In Beyond Schools: Mu ammad b. Ibrahim al-Wazirs (d. 840/1436) Epistemology of Ambiguity, Damaris Wilmers offers the first extensive analysis of Ibn al-Wazirs life and work and the significance of his thought for theological and legal divers...Lasīt vairāk
