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Sculpting the Self - Islam, Selfhood, and Human Flourishing (Hardcover)
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Sculpting the Self - Islam, Selfhood, and Human Flourishing (Hardcover)
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Sculpting the Self addresses 'what it means to be human' in a
secular, post-Enlightenment world by exploring notions of self and
subjectivity in Islamic and non-Islamic philosophical and mystical
thought. Alongside detailed analyses of three major Islamic
thinkers (Mulla ?adra, Shah Wali Allah, and Muhammad Iqbal), this
study also situates their writings on selfhood within the wider
constellation of related discussions in late modern and
contemporary thought, engaging the seminal theoretical insights on
the self by William James, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Michel Foucault.
This allows the book to develop its inquiry within a spectrum
theory of selfhood, incorporating bio-physiological,
socio-cultural, and ethico-spiritual modes of discourse and
meaning-construction. Weaving together insights from several
disciplines such as religious studies, philosophy, anthropology,
critical theory, and neuroscience, and arguing against views that
narrowly restrict the self to a set of cognitive functions and
abilities, this study proposes a multidimensional account of the
self that offers new options for addressing central issues in the
contemporary world, including spirituality, human flourishing, and
meaning in life.This is the first book-length treatment of selfhood
in Islamic thought that draws on a wealth of primary source texts
in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Greek, and others. Muhammad U. Faruque's
interdisciplinary approach makes a significant contribution in the
growing field of cross-cultural dialogue, as it opens up the way
for engaging premodern and modern Islamic sources from a
contemporary perspective by going beyond the exegesis of historical
materials. He initiates a critical conversation between new
insights into human nature as developed in neuroscience and modern
philosophical literature and millennia-old Islamic perspectives on
the self, consciousness, and human flourishing as developed in
Islamic philosophical, mystical, and literary traditions.
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