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God and Logic In Islam: the Caliphate Of Reason
[Paperback - 2013]
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press Uk | ISBN: 9781107641099 | Pages: 228
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This book investigates the central role of reason in Islamic intellectual life. Despite widespread characterization of Islam as a system of belief based only on revelation, John Walbridge argues that rational methods, not fundamentalism, have characterized Islamic law, philosophy, and education since the medieval period. His research demonstrates that this medieval Islamic rational tradition was opposed by both modernists and fundamentalists, resulting in a general collapse of traditional Islamic intellectual life and its replacement by more modern but far shallower forms of thought. However, the resources of this Islamic scholarly tradition remain an integral part of the Islamic intellectual tradition and will prove vital to its revival. The future of Islam, Walbridge argues, will be marked by a return to rationalism.

Walbridge is an expert on Islamic philosophy and Islamic intellectual history with an emphasis on the cultural role of philosophy and science. " He also researches Graeco-Islamic medicine. His most recent books are "God and Logic in Islam: the Caliphate of Reason" and "The Alexandrian Epitomes of Galen," vol. 1.

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