Book
Islam, modernity, and the human sciences
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.
Details | Table of Contents
the cases of Nasr and al-Faruqi
pp.53-80
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230118997_3from nihilism to an organic metaphysics
pp.125-143
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230118997_6Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2011
Pages: 217
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.