Islamic theology
Subtitle: traditionalism and rationalism
By: Binyamin Abrahamov.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Islam and reason; Philosophy, Islamic; Islam -- Doctrines; Rationalism; Hadith
Description: "The principal theological struggle in Islam has taken place between traditionalist theologians and rationalist ones. Professor Abrahamov examines the foundations of both traditionlism and rationalism in classical Islamic thought, the criticism levelled by each system of thought against the other and the attempts which have been carried out to reconcile reason and tradition. The materials studied cover the third/ninth century to the tenth/sixteenth century."--Jacket.