The formation of Arab reason: text, tradition and the construction of modernity in the Arab world

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 r...

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1. Verfasser: Ǧābirī, Muḥammad ʿĀbid al- 1936-2010 (VerfasserIn)
Körperschaft: Markaz Dirāsāt al-Waḥda al-ʿArabīya (Beirut) (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Arabic
Veröffentlicht: London I.B. Tauris 2011
Schriftenreihe:Contemporary Arab scholarship in the social sciences vol. 5
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Zusammenfassung: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
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
Beschreibung:Translated from the Arabic
Includes bibliographical references (p. [439]-448) and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (x, 462 Seiten)
ISBN:9780755610617
9780857719447
DOI:10.5040/9780755610617

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