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The Story of Reason in Islam (Paperback)
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The Story of Reason in Islam (Paperback)
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
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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 of Faith and Reason, he takes
a fresh look at why and how Islamic reasoning evolved over time. He
surveys the different Islamic schools of thought and how they dealt
with major philosophical issues, showing that Reason pervaded all
disciplines, from philosophy and science to language, poetry, and
law. Along the way, the best known Muslim philosophers are
introduced in a new light. Countering received chronologies, in
this story Reason reaches its zenith in the early seventeenth
century; it then trails off, its demise as sudden as its
appearance. Thereafter, Reason loses out to passive belief,
lifeless logic, and a self-contained legalism—in other words, to
a less flexible Islam. Nusseibeh's speculations as to why this
occurred focus on the fortunes and misfortunes of classical Arabic
in the Islamic world. Change, he suggests, may only come from the
revivification of language itself.
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