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Zusatztext "Written with the uninitiated in mind....Nusseibeh's sensitive, elliptical handling of dense metaphysical material echoes one of the book's central points: that the philosophical tradition in Arabic grew out of a world in which poetry was the preeminent means of expression....Through skillful weaving of events and ideas, Nusseibeh shows how politics determined the themes—justice, free will, the legitimacy of resisting an unjust leader—that became central to early Islamic thought." Informationen zum Autor Sari Nusseibeh is Professor of Philosophy at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem. His most recent book is What's a Palestinian State Worth? (2011) . Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Unconventionally fusing the the history of faith and reason in Islam, this book traces the Qur'an-inspired intellectual revolution that took off in the Islamic world of the seventh century, revealing its highlights and following it through to its sixteenth-century demise. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The Arabian Desert 2. The Daunting Idea of God 3. Free Will and Determinism 4. The Qur'an: Created or Eternal? 5. From Wasil to Ibn Hanbal 6. Early Islam: Literacy, Conflict and Expansion 7. Speculative Discourse: A Style 8. Discourse: In Pursuit of the Ultimate Answers 9. Law and Morality 10. Al-Ma'moun and the Devil's Banquets. 11. The Language-Logic debate 12. Back to the Human Will and Language 13. Expanding the View 14. An Interlude: Caliph, Imam, and Philosopher-King 15. Philosophy and Politics 16. The Philosophers' "Frenzy" 17. Back to Wine and Logic 18. Motion and Light 19. The Nature of Truth 20. Fardajan and Beyond 21. The Cosmos 22. Cosmic Lights 23. Fast Forward 24. Language and Reason: The Dilemma ...
