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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Islam, modernity, and the human sciences

Ali Zaidi

Abstract

Ali Zaidi discloses a largely unnoticed dialogue between Muslim and Western social thought on the search for meaning and transcendence in the human sciences. This disclosure is accomplished by a comparative reading of Muslim debates on secular knowledge on the one hand and of Western debates on the putative death of metaphysics in the human sciences on the other hand. The analysis is grounded in dialogical hermeneutics; that is, a hermeneutic approach to texts and cultural traditions that draws upon the work of Hans-Georg  Gadamer and upon the insights of inter-religious dialogue.

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Publication details

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 2011

Pages: 217

DOI: 10.1057/9780230118997

ISBN (hardback): 978-1-349-29281-3

ISBN (digital): 978-0-230-11899-7

Full citation:

Zaidi Ali (2011) Islam, modernity, and the human sciences. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.