Arabic Thought and Its Place in History
Author: De Lacy O'Leary
Publisher:
Published: 1922
Total Pages: 336
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Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798-1939
Author: Albert Hourani
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1983-06-23
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780521274234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a most comprehensive study of the modernizing trend of political and social thought in the Arab Middle East.
Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period
Author: Tarif Khalidi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-12
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0521465540
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA survey of an entire tradition of historical thought and writing across a span of eight hundred years.
Arabic Thought and Its Place in History
Author: De Lacy O'Leary
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-10-26
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0486149552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWell-documented study of the mutual influence of Arabic and Western worlds during the Middle Ages traces the transmission of Greek philosophy and science to the Islamic cultures.
Greek Thought, Arabic Culture
Author: Dimitri Gutas
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780415061322
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the accession of the Arab dynasty of the 'Abbasids to power and the foundation of Baghdad, a Graeco-Arabic translation movement was initiated, and by the end of the tenth century, almost all scientific and philosophical secular Greek works that were available in late antiquity had been translated into Arabic. This book explores the social, political and ideological factors operative in early 'Abbasid society that sustained the translation movement.
Classical Arabic Philosophy
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Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2007-03-15
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 1603840338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume introduces the major classical Arabic philosophers through substantial selections from the key works (many of which appear in translation for the first time here) in each of the fields--including logic, philosophy of science, natural philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, and politics--to which they made significant contributions. An extensive Introduction situating the works within their historical, cultural, and philosophical contexts offers support to students approaching the subject for the first time, as well as to instructors with little or no formal training in Arabic thought. A glossary, select bibliography, and index are also included.
Rediscovering the Islamic Classics
Author: Ahmed El Shamsy
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-02-11
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0691174563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe people who selected, edited, and published the new print books on and about Islam exerted a huge influence on the resulting literary tradition. These unheralded editors determined, essentially, what came to be understood by the early twentieth century as the classical written "canon" of Islamic thought. Collectively, this relatively small group of editors who brought Islamic literature into print crucially shaped how Muslim intellectuals, the Muslim public, and various Islamist movements understood the Islamic intellectual tradition. In this book Ahmed El Shamsy recounts this sea change, focusing on the Islamic literary culture of Cairo, a hot spot of the infant publishing industry, from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As El Shamsy argues, the aforementioned editors included some of the greatest minds in the Muslim world and shared an ambitious intellectual agenda of revival, reform, and identity formation. .
Arab Political Thought
Author: Georges Corm
Publisher: Hurst & Company
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 1849048169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the many facets of Arab political thought from the nineteenth century to the present day.
Arabs
Author: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2019-04-30
Total Pages: 681
ISBN-13: 0300180284
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith begins his narrative more than a thousand years before Muhammad and focuses on how Arabic, both spoken and written, has functioned as a vital source of shared cultural identity over the millennia. Mackintosh-Smith reveals how linguistic developments--from pre-Islamic poetry to the growth of script, Muhammad's use of writing, and the later problems of printing Arabic--have helped and hindered the progress of Arab history, and investigates how, even in today's politically fractured post-Arab Spring environment, Arabic itself is still a source of unity and disunity.
The Caliphate of Man
Author: Andrew F. March
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: 2019-09-17
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0674987837
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA political theorist teases out the century-old ideological transformation at the heart of contemporary discourse in Muslim nations undergoing political change. The Arab Spring precipitated a crisis in political Islam. In Egypt Islamists have been crushed. In Turkey they have descended into authoritarianism. In Tunisia they govern but without the label of “political Islam.” Andrew March explores how, before this crisis, Islamists developed a unique theory of popular sovereignty, one that promised to determine the future of democracy in the Middle East. This began with the claim of divine sovereignty, the demand to restore the sharīʿa in modern societies. But prominent theorists of political Islam also advanced another principle, the Quranic notion that God’s authority on earth rests not with sultans or with scholars’ interpretation of written law but with the entirety of the Muslim people, the umma. Drawing on this argument, utopian theorists such as Abū’l-Aʿlā Mawdūdī and Sayyid Quṭb released into the intellectual bloodstream the doctrine of the caliphate of man: while God is sovereign, He has appointed the multitude of believers as His vicegerent. The Caliphate of Man argues that the doctrine of the universal human caliphate underpins a specific democratic theory, a kind of Islamic republic of virtue in which the people have authority over the government and religious leaders. But is this an ideal regime destined to survive only as theory?
