description: These essays, published for the first time, address the age-old question of the relation between philosophical and scientific reason and religious belief and imagination. The author addresses the question by reference to the classical history of Islam, selecting such key texts, figures and movements as the Qu'ran, the rationalism of the Mutazila, the Fatimids, and the great Muslim philosophers from Farabi to Averroes.
language: English
title: Reason, Interpretation and Islam: Essays in the Philosophy Religion
titlecomplete: Reason, Interpretation and Islam: Essays in the Philosophy Religion
publisher: Curzon Pr