Reading the Signs: A Qur'anic Perspective on Thinking - Softcover

Mohammad Hashim Kamali

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565649869 ISBN 13: 9781565649866

Verlag: International Institute of Islamic Thought, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Advanced in this paper is a Qur'anic perspective on thinking, rationality, and critical reason, which in its critical and goal-oriented dimensions provides a set of guidelines that ensures its purity and purpose from negative reductionist influences. The guidelines so provided are also rich in advancing a spiritual dimension with the understanding that thinking which is not informed by morality and faith can lose its direction and purpose and can even become harmful to human welfare. The paper begins with a discussion of the divine signs, the ayat, and the prominent profile that they take in the Qur'anic conception of thinking. Other topics discussed include an identification of the sources of knowledge in the Qur'an, factors that impede rational thinking, and a historical sketch of the golden age of scientific creativity and its eventual decline. A brief section is also devoted to ijtihad and where it fits into the scheme of our analysis on thinking, followed by a short comparison of Islamic and Western philosophical perceptions of rationality.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: International Institute of Islamic Thought
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1565649869
• ISBN 13: 9781565649866
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 36
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