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- catalog abstract "Publisher's description: This book is an attempt to explain how, in the face of increasing religious authoritarianism in medieval Islamic civilization, some Muslim thinkers continued to pursue essentially humanistic, rational, and scientific discourses in the quest for knowledge, meaning, and values. Drawing on a wide range of Islamic writings, from love poetry to history to philosophical theology, Goodman shows that medieval Islam was open to individualism, occasional secularism, skepticism, even liberalism.".
- catalog contributor b12623383.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description "1. The Sacred and the Secular -- Focus and Distraction -- Poetry and Music -- Dress and Display -- Dunya and Din -- in Wine, War, and Love -- Play, the Hunt, and the Freedom of the Dandy -- 2. Humanism and Islamic Ethics -- Islamic Ethics in Theory and Practice -- Miskawayh's Courtly Humanism -- Ghazali's Appropriation -- 3. Being and Knowing -- Being and Becoming -- Knowledge as a Value -- 4. The Rise of Universal Historiography -- The Birth of Arabic Historiography -- The Roots of Annalistic -- Baladhuri's Narrative Strategy -- Greek and Biblical Models -- Universal History -- Tabari's Synthesis -- Saadiah's Historical Orientation -- Mas'udi -- The Triumph of Synthetic History -- Miskawayh's Historiography -- Local Chronicles and Biographical Dictionaries -- Rashid al-Din's Universal History -- Ibn Khaldun.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-259) and index.".
- catalog description "Publisher's description: This book is an attempt to explain how, in the face of increasing religious authoritarianism in medieval Islamic civilization, some Muslim thinkers continued to pursue essentially humanistic, rational, and scientific discourses in the quest for knowledge, meaning, and values. Drawing on a wide range of Islamic writings, from love poetry to history to philosophical theology, Goodman shows that medieval Islam was open to individualism, occasional secularism, skepticism, even liberalism.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 273 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0195135806 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "297.2/6 21".
- catalog subject "BP190.5.T78 G66 2003".
- catalog subject "Human rights Religious aspects Islam.".
- catalog subject "Islam and humanism.".
- catalog subject "Islam and social problems.".
- catalog subject "Islamic philosophy.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The Sacred and the Secular -- Focus and Distraction -- Poetry and Music -- Dress and Display -- Dunya and Din -- in Wine, War, and Love -- Play, the Hunt, and the Freedom of the Dandy -- 2. Humanism and Islamic Ethics -- Islamic Ethics in Theory and Practice -- Miskawayh's Courtly Humanism -- Ghazali's Appropriation -- 3. Being and Knowing -- Being and Becoming -- Knowledge as a Value -- 4. The Rise of Universal Historiography -- The Birth of Arabic Historiography -- The Roots of Annalistic -- Baladhuri's Narrative Strategy -- Greek and Biblical Models -- Universal History -- Tabari's Synthesis -- Saadiah's Historical Orientation -- Mas'udi -- The Triumph of Synthetic History -- Miskawayh's Historiography -- Local Chronicles and Biographical Dictionaries -- Rashid al-Din's Universal History -- Ibn Khaldun.".
- catalog title "Islamic humanism / Lenn E. Goodman.".
- catalog type "text".