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Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke
2011
217 Pages
ISBN 978-1-349-29281-3
Islam, modernity, and the human sciences
Ali Zaidi
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 uponthe work of Hans-Georg Gadamer and upon the insights of inter-religious dialogue.
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Zaidi, A. (2011). Islam, modernity, and the human sciences, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.
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