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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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McGill-Queen's studies in modern Islamic thought ; 1
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McGill-Queen's studies in modern Islamic thought ; 1.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Sir Syed's Representationalism -- Knowledge, Experience, and Reality -- The Cosmos as Self -- The Human Being as Self -- The Meaning of Revelation. |
| Summary |
"Muhammad Iqbal (d. 1938) was one of the most influential modernist Islamic thinkers of the early twentieth century. His work as a poet, politician, philosopher, and public intellectual was widely recognized in his lifetime and plays a major role in contemporary conversations about Islam, modernity, and tradition. The Ambiguities of Modern Islamic Thought examines the patterns of reasoning at work in Iqbal's philosophic magnum opus, arguably the most significant text of modernist Islamic philosophy, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam. Since its initial publication in 1934, The Reconstruction has left scholars in a quandary: its themes appear eclectic, and its arguments contradictory and philosophically perplexing. In this groundbreaking study, Nauman Faizi argues that the keys to demystifying the contradictions of The Reconstruction are two competing epistemologies at play within the work. Iqbal takes knowledge to be descriptive, essential, foundational, and binary, but he also takes knowledge to be performative, contextual, probabilistic, and vague. Faizi demonstrates how these approaches to knowledge shape Iqbal's claims about personhood, God, scripture, philosophy, and science. The Ambiguities of Modern Islamic Thought offers an original approach to interpreting Islamic thought as it crafts relationships between scriptural texts, philosophic thought, and scientific claims for modern Muslim subjects."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Iqbal, Muhammad, Sir, 1877-1938. Reconstruction of religious thought in Islam.
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Reconstruction of religious thought in Islam (Iqbal, Muhammad, Sir) |
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Islam -- 20th century.
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Islam. |
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20th century |
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1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Muhammad Iqbal's Reconstruction of religious thought |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Faizi, Nauman. God, science, and self. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021 0228006597 9780228006589 (OCoLC)1202056250 |
| ISBN |
9780228007302 electronic book |
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0228007305 electronic book |
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