| Series |
Contemporary Arab scholarship in the social sciences ; v. 5
Contemporary Arab scholarship in the social sciences ; v. 5. ^A797041
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Reason and Culture -- ch. 2 Arab Cultural Time and the Problematic of Development -- ch. 3 The Era of Codification: The Authoritative Referential Framework of Arab Thought -- ch. 4 The Bedouin, the Maker of the Arab World -- ch. 5 Legitimising the Legitimiser (al-tashri' li-l-musharri') 1: The Codification of 'Opinion' and 'Legitimisation' of the Past -- ch. 6 Legitimising the Legitimiser 2: Analogising According to 'Precedent' -- ch. 7 The Religious 'Rational' and the Irrational of 'Reason' -- ch. 8 Resigned Reason 1: Within the Ancient Legacy -- ch. 9 Resigned Reason 2: Within Arab-Islamic Culture -- ch. 10 The Introduction of Reason into Islam -- ch. 11 The Crisis of Fundamentals and the Fundamentals of the Crisis -- ch. 12 A New Beginning...However!. |
| Abstract |
Since the earliest period of Islamic history, Arab thought and reason has been dominated by a reverence for tradition and textual analysis. In this groundbreaking work, the great contemporary Arab philosopher Mohammed Abed al-Jabri seeks to chart a course towards modernity via the proposition that respect for textualism and tradition are not inconsistent with rationalism, and that both history and philosophy are key to the evolution of knowledge systems and ways of reasoning in Arab culture. -- |
| Abstract |
Al-Jabri dissects the systems through which knowledge is obtained and verified in Arab thought, and demonstrates their fundamental bias towards analogical reasoning and premodern authoritative referents, some of which are inherently resistant to empirical analysis. In an impassioned defence of rationalism, he argues that these textual reference points must be interpreted and mediated with critical analytical tools. He advocates an evolution of Arab thought to accommodate the changeability of values, interpretations and structures over space and time, to escape an a-historical imprisonment. --Book Jacket. |
| General note | Translated from the Arabic. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [439]-448) and index. |
| Language | Translated from the Arabic. |
| ISBN | 9781848850613 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 1848850611 (hbk.) |
