Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Islamic Life and Thought (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays by one of the best known contemporary Muslim scholars writing in English covers many facets of Islamic life and thought. The author has brought together studies dealing with the practical as well as intellectual aspects of Islam in both their historical and contemporary reality. The contemporary significance of themes such as religion and secularism, the meaning of freedom, and the tradition of Islamic science and philosophy is given particular attention.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134538119
• Artikelnr.: 39907821

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Law and Society; Chapter 1 Religion and Secularism, Their Meaning and Manifestation in Islamic History; Chapter 2 The Concept and Reality of Freedom in Islam and Islamic Civilisation; Chapter 3 The Shar?'ah and Changing Historical Conditions; Chapter 4 The Immutable Principles of Islam and Westernised Education in the Islamic World; Part 2 Cultural and Intellectual Life; Chapter 5 A Typological Study of Islamic Culture; Chapter 6 A Panorama of Classical Islamic Intellectual Life; Part 3 The Sciences; Chapter 7 The Cosmologies of Aristotle and Ibn S?n?: a Comparative Study in the Light of Islamic Doctrines; Chapter 8 The Meaning of Nature in Various Perspectives in Islam; Chapter 9 Hermes and Hermetic Writings in the Islamic World; Chapter 10 From the Alchemy of J?bir to the Chemistry of R?z?; Chapter 11 The Study of Natural History in the Islamic World; Part 4 Philosophy; Chapter 12 The Pertinence of Studying Islamic Philosophy Today; Chapter 13 Islamic Philosophy - Reorientation or Re-understanding; Chapter 14 The Life, Doctrines and Significance of ?adr al-D?n Sh?r?z? (Mull? ?adr?); Chapter 15 Mull? ?adr? as a Source for the History of Islamic Philosophy; Chapter 16 Mull? ?adr? and the Doctrine of the Unity of Being; Chapter 17 The Polarisation of Being; Part 5 Sufism; Chapter 18 The Interior Life in Islam; Chapter 19 Contemplation and Nature in the Perspective of Sufism;