Sunnathoi aqloni dar islom
Nodir
This is a Tajik translation of F. Daftary, ed., Intellectual Traditions in Islam.
Description from Intellectual Traditions in Islam
The eleven essays collected in this volume originate from an international seminar ‘Intellectual Traditions in Islam’ organized by The Institute of Ismaili Studies in the summer of 1994 at Churchill College, University of Cambridge. This seminar was intended to promote understanding, raise questions and generate discussion on major issues and themes in the intellectual history of Islam, encompassing the classical and modern periods.
Among the scholars who addressed the seminar and whose presentations are included in this publication are Mohammed Arkoun, Norman Calder, John Cooper, Farhad Daftary, Aziz Esmail, Alice C. Hunsberger, Hugh Kennedy, Oliver Leaman, Abdulaziz Sachedina and Annemarie Schimmel. The paper by Muhsin Mahdi was delivered at an earlier seminar held by the Institute in 1990.
The various contributions to this volume, which focus on different aspects of Muslim intellectual life such as law, theology, philosophy and mysticism, demonstrate the pivotal role of the intellect in the formation of Islamic civilization, as well as its continuing primacy in dealing with the problems and challenges of modernity.
Contents from Intellectual Traditions in Islam
Preface
Notes on the Contributors
1. Introduction
Aziz Esmail
2. Intellectual Life in the First Four Centuries of Islam
Hugh Kennedy
3. Scientific and Philosophical Enquiry: Achievements and Reactions in Muslim History
Oliver Leaman
4. The Rational Tradition in Islam
Muhsin Mahdi
5. The Limits of Islamic Orthodoxy
Norman Calder
6. Intellectual Life among the Ismailis: An Overview
Farhad Daftary
7. Nasir Khusraw: Fatimid Intellectual
Alice C. Hunsberger
8. Reason and Mystical Experience in Sufism
Annemarie Schimmel
9. Some Observations on the Religious Intellectual Milieu of Safawid Iran
John Cooper
10. Woman, Half–the–Man? The Crisis of Male Epistemology in Islamic Jurisprudence
Abdulaziz Sachedina
11. Present–Day Islam Between its Tradition and Globalization
Mohammed Arkoun
Glossary
Select Bibliography
Index