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Islamic intellectual history in the seventeenth century : scholarly currents in the Ottoman Empire and the Maghreb /
"For much of the twentieth century, the intellectual life of the Ottoman and Arabic-Islamic world in the seventeenth century was ignored or mischaracterized by historians. Ottomanists typically saw the seventeenth century as marking the end of Ottoman cultural florescence, while modern Arab nat...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. The Path of the Kurdish and Persian Verifying Scholars
- 1. Kurdish scholars and the reinvigoration of the rational sciences
- 2. A discourse of method : the evolution of adab al-bahth
- 3. The rise of deep reading
- Part II. Saving Servants from the Yoke of Imitation
- 4. Maghrebi theologian-logicians in Egypt and the Hejaz
- 5. The condemnation of imitation (taqlid)
- 6. Al-Hasan al-Yusi and two theological controversies in seventeenth-century Morocco
- Part III. The Imams of Those Who Proclaim the Unity of Existence
- 7. The spread of mystical monism
- 8. Monist mystics and neo-Hanbali traditionalism
- 9. In defense of wahdat al-wujud.