Islam, Modernity, and the Human Sciences

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Reference, Psychology of Religion, Education, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching
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Author: A. Zaidi ISBN: 9780230118997
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US Publication: May 9, 2011
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Language: English
Author: A. Zaidi
ISBN: 9780230118997
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication: May 9, 2011
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English

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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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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