Islam, Modernity, and the Human Sciences

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Synopsis

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.

Book details

Edition:
2011
Author:
A. Zaidi
ISBN:
9780230118997
Related ISBNs:
9780230110359
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan US, New York
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2020-12-09
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2011
Copyright by:
A. Zaidi 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Education, Nonfiction, Psychology, Religion and Spirituality, Sociology