Formation of Arab Reason : Text, Tradition and the Construction of Modernity in the Arab World.
Title:
Formation of Arab Reason : Text, Tradition and the Construction of Modernity in the Arab World.
Author:
Al-Jabri, Mohammed Abed.
ISBN:
9780857719447
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (473 pages)
Series:
Contemp. Arab Scholarship in the Social Sciences
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Part I - Arab Reason... In What Meaning? Preliminary Approaches -- 1. Reason and Culture -- 2. Arab Cultural Time and the Problematic of Development -- 3. The Era of Codifiacation: The Authoritative Referential Framework of Arab Thought -- Part II - The Formation of Arab Reason. The Epistemological and Ideological in Arab culture -- 4. The Bedouin, the Maker of the Arab World -- 5. Legitimising the Legitimiser -- 6. Legitimising the Legitimiser -- 7. The Religious 'Rational' and the Irrational of 'Reason' -- 8. Resigned Reason -- 9. Resigned Reason -- 10. The Introduction of Reason into Islam -- 11. The Crisis of Fundamentals and the Fundamentals of the Crisis -- 12. A New Beginning... However! -- Conclusion. Knowledge, Science and Politics in Arab Culture -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Since the earliest period of Islamic history, Arab thought has been dominated by a reverence for tradition and textual analysis. In this groundbreaking work, the great contemporary Arab philosopher Mohammed Abed Al-Jabiri seeks to chart a route towards modernity via the proposition that respect for textualism and tradition are not inconsistent with rationalism and that both history and philosophy are key to the evolution of knowledge systems and ways of reasoning in Arab culture. This book has been an enormous influence within the Arab world on the 'Islam and Modernity' discourse. It is published here for the first time in English and provides a fascinating insight into the currents of contemporary Arab thought._x000D_.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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