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Islam, Modernity, and the Human Sciences, Hardcover by Zaidi, Ali; Dallmayr, ...

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Publication Year: 2011 height: 0.8 in width: 5.7 in Item Width: 5.7 in Format: Hardcover Item Height: 0.8 in Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Number of Pages: Xv, 217 Pages Book Title: Islam, Modernity, and the Human Sciences Item Length: 8.7 in Subject: Islam / Theology, Social, Islam / General, Christianity / General, Psychology of Religion, Sociology of Religion Subject Area: Religion, Philosophy, Social Science Author: Ali Zaidi ISBN: 9780230110359 Item Weight: 15 Oz Type: Textbook Language: English Publication Name: Islam, Modernity, and the Human Sciences

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Islam, Modernity, and the Human Sciences, Hardcover by Zaidi, Ali; Dallmayr, .... Islam, Modernity, and the Human Sciences, Hardcover by Zaidi, Ali; Dallmayr, Fred (FRW), ISBN 0230110355, ISBN-13 9780230110359, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "This book serves as a "translation service" between Muslim and Western social thought on the search for meaning and transcendence in the human sciences. The translation is accomplished by a comparative reading of contemporary Muslim debates on secular knowledge on the one hand and of a foundational Western debate on the demise of metaphysics in the human sciences on the other hand. Th challenges contemporary Muslim critics who regard the modern human sciences as leading inevitably toward nihilism,and Western critics who regard religious thought as inimical to the human sciences. It also expands the realm of social theory beyond the Western canon, and contributes to the new and growing field of comparative social theory"--

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