Islam, Modernity, and the Human Sciences [electronic resource] /
Zaidi, A.author.
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Social theory and dialogical understanding -- pt. 2. Muslim debates on social knowledge -- pt. 3. Western debates on social knowledge.
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.
Church and education.
Psychology and religion.
Islam-Doctrines.
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Islam.
Religion and Education.
Religion and Psychology.
Islamic Theology.
Social Theory.
Islam.