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Islamic Humanism

Islamic Humanism

Hardcover

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryIslam

ISBN10: 0195135806
ISBN13: 9780195135800
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Mar 27 2003
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.97 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.32
Language: English
This book is an attempt to explain how, in the face of increasing religious authoritarianism in medieval Islamic civilization, some Muslim thinkers continued to pursue essentially humanistic, rational, and scientific discourses in the quest for knowledge, meaning, and values. Drawing on a wide range of Islamic writings, from love poetry to history to philosophical theology, Goodman shows that medieval Islam was open to individualism, occasional secularism, skepticism, even liberalism.

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