Themes from a Critical Rationalist Reading of Islam
Ali Paya
; New York
Routledge
2018
xi, 272 p.
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Index
Introduction -- What and how can we learn from the Quran : a critical rationalist perspective -- A critical rationalist approach to religion -- A critical assessment of the programmes of producing "Islamic science" and "Islamisation of science/knowledge" -- Faqih as engineer : a critical assessment of Fiqh's epistemological status -- A critical assessment of the method of interpretation of the Quran by the Quran, in the light of Allameh Tabatabaei's Tafsir al-Mizan -- The disenchantment of reason : an anti-rational trend in modern Shii thought- the Tafkikis -- Islamic philosophy : past, present, and future -- Doctrinal certainty : a major contributory factor to "secular" and "religious" violence in the political sphere -- Islam, Christianity, and Judaism : can they ever live peacefully together? -- The shape of the coming global civil society : suggestions for a possible Islamic perspective.