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Islamic humanism

Drawing on a range of Islamic writings, this book aims to explain how, in the face of increasing religious authoritarianism in medieval Islamic civilization, some Muslim thinkers continued to pursue essentially humanistic, rational, and scientific discourses in the quest for knowledge, meaning, and values.
Print Book, English, 2003
Oxford University Press, New York, 2003
Historia
XIII, 273 p. 23 cm
9780195189148, 9780195135800, 0195189140, 0195135806
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