God and Logic in Islam: The Caliphate of Reason usil al fiqh Contributors include John Haldon

Contributors include John Haldon

Author: Abu Hasan Al-Mawardi

An Analysis of Individual and Collective Approaches

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God and Logic in Islam: The Caliphate of Reason usil al fiqh Contributors include John HaldonThis book investigates the central role of reason in Islamic intellectual life. Despite widespread characterization of Islam as a system of belief based only on revelation, John Walbridge argues that rational methods, not fundamentalism, have characterized Islamic law, philosophy, and education since the medieval period. His research demonstrates that this medieval Islamic rational tradition was opposed by both modernists and fundamentalists,