Islam, Modernity, and the Human Sciences

Zaidi, A.

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 upon the work of Hans-Georg  Gadamer and upon the insights of inter-religious dialogue.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2011-04-28

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230110359

DOI: 10.1057/9780230118997

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 217