Title:
Intellectual traditions in Islam
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Edition:
Pbk. ed.
Publication Information:
London ; New York : I.B. Tauris in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies ; New York : in the United States of America and Canada distributed by St. Martins Press, 2001, c2000.
Physical Description:
xvii, 252 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:
9781860647604
General Note:
Papers derived from a seminar entitled "Intellectual Traditions in Islam, " organized by The Institute of Ismaili Studies at the Mellor Centre, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, August 14-20, 1994.
Contents:
Introduction / Aziz Esmail -- Intellectual life in the first four centuries of Islam / Hugh Kennedy -- Scientific and philosophical enquiry : achievements and reactions in Muslim history / Oliver Leaman -- The rational tradition in Islam / Muhsin Mahdi -- The limits of Islamic orthodoxy / Norman Calder -- Intellectual life among the Ismailis : an overview / Farhad Daftary -- Nasir Khusraw : Fatimid intellectual / Alice C. Hunsberger -- Reason and mystical experience in Sufism / Annemarie Schimmel -- Some observations on the religious intellectual milieu of Safawid Iran / John Cooper -- Woman, half-the-man? The crisis of male epistemology in Islamic jurisprudence / Abdulaziz Sachedina -- Present-day Islam between its tradition and globalization / Mohammed Arkoun.
Language:
English
