Al-Jahiz and Religious Knowledge A Forgotten Islamic Rationalism
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Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
31.05.2025
Verlag
Edinburgh University PressSeitenzahl
360
Maße (L/B/H)
23.5/16/2.4 cm
Gewicht
658 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-399-52197-0
While it may seem paradoxical to combine trust in rational religion with distrust of human reason, this is exactly what a group of understudied Muslim theologians proposed. Known as the Epistemists, they pushed for an inclusive epistemology that broadened the scope of knowledge. They argued that humans can acquire rational knowledge without discursive arguments, through an unconscious process of social exposure. In this, the Epistemists presented a radical alternative to other Islamic conceptions of rationalism, with immense promise for modern contexts.
This book reconstructs a worldview prominent among the Epistemists, and explores how it correlates with their rise and fall as a theological trend. It examines the intellectual project of their premier advocate, al-Jāḥiẓ (d. 868-9), offering a systematic reading of his oeuvre as an Epistemist, and situates it in the formative ʿAbbasid moment of Islamic history.Noch keine Bewertungen vorhanden
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