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Languages : en
Pages : 373
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Averroes' Tahāfut al-Tahāfut
Author: Averroes' Tahafut Al-tahafut
Author: AverroësPublisher:
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Category : Islamic philosophy
Languages : en
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تهافت الفلاسفة
Author: GhazzālīPublisher: Islamic translation
ISBN: 9780842524667
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Although Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali lived a relatively short life (1058-1111), he established himself as one of the most important thinkers in the history of Islam. The Incoherence of the Philosophers, written after more than a decade of travel and ascetic contemplation, contends that while such Muslim philosophers as Avicenna boasted of unassailable arguments on matters of theology and metaphysics, they could not deliver on their claims; moreover, many of their assertions represented disguised heresy and unbelief. Despite its attempted refutation by the twelfth-century philosopher Ibn Rushd, al-Ghazali's work remains widely read and influential.
Incoherence of the Incoherence
Author: AverroësThe Book of Contemplation
Author: Usama ibn MunqidhPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141919175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The volume comprises lightly annotated translation of a key medieval Arabic text that bears directly on the Crusades and Crusader society and the Muslim experience of them.
Al-Ghazali's Philosophical Theology
Author: Frank GriffelPublisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195331621
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
A comprehensive study of Muslim thinker al-Ghazali's life and his understanding of cosmology-how God creates things and events in the world, how human acts relate to God's power, and how the universe is structured.
Al-Ghazali's "Moderation in Belief"
Author: Al-GhazaliPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022606090X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Centuries after his death, al-Ghazali remains one of the most influential figures of the Islamic intellectual tradition. Although he is best known for his Incoherence of the Philosophers, Moderation in Belief is his most profound work of philosophical theology. In it, he offers what scholars consider to be the best defense of the Ash'arite school of Islamic theology that gained acceptance within orthodox Sunni theology in the twelfth century, though he also diverges from Ash'arism with his more rationalist approach to the Quran. Together with The Incoherence of the Philosophers, Moderation in Belief informs many subsequent theological debates, and its influence extends beyond the Islamic tradition, informing broader questions within Western philosophical and theological thought. The first complete English-language edition of Moderation in Belief, this new annotated translation by Aladdin M. Yaqub draws on the most esteemed critical editions of the Arabic texts and offers detailed commentary that analyzes and reconstructs the arguments found in the work’s four treatises. Explanations of the historical and intellectual background of the texts also enable readers with a limited knowledge of classical Arabic to fully explore al-Ghazali and this foundational text for the first time. With the recent resurgence of interest in Islamic philosophy and the conflict between philosophy and religion, this new translation will be a welcome addition to the scholarship.
Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings
Author: Muhammad Ali KhalidiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521822432
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy
Author: Khaled El-RouayhebPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199917388
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
The study of Islamic philosophy has entered a new and exciting phase in the last few years. Both the received canon of Islamic philosophers and the narrative of the course of Islamic philosophy are in the process of being radically questioned and revised. Most twentieth-century Western scholarship on Arabic or Islamic philosophy has focused on the period from the ninth century to the twelfth. It is a measure of the transformation that is currently underway in the field that, unlike other reference works, the Oxford Handbook has striven to give roughly equal weight to every century, from the ninth to the twentieth. The Handbook is also unique in that its 30 chapters are work-centered rather than person- or theme-centered, in particular taking advantage of recent new editions and translations that have renewed interest and debate around the Islamic philosophical canon. The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy gives both the advanced student and active scholar in Islamic philosophy, theology, and intellectual history, a strong sense of what a work in Islamic philosophy looks like and a deep view of the issues, concepts, and arguments that are at stake. Most importantly, it provides an up-to-date portrait of contemporary scholarship on Islamic philosophy.
Incoherent Empire
Author: Michael MannPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1789603331
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
In this book, noted sociologist Michael Mann argues that the "new American imperialism" is actually a new militarism. Dissecting the economic, political, military and ideological resources available to the US, Mann concludes that they are so uneven as to generate only an 'incoherent empire' and increasing world disorder. The US is a military giant, though it is better at devastating than pacifying countries. It is a political schizophrenic, its personality split between multilateralism, unilateralism and an actual inability to rule over foreign lands or to control its own supposed client states. It is only a backseat driver of the global economy. It cannot steer it, but it prods poorer countries toward an unproductive and unpopular neo-liberalism.
