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| Illustrations | |
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| Preface and Acknowledgements | |
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| Spelling, Names, and Sources | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Formation of the Islamic Tradition of Reason | |
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| The Problem of Reason in Islam: Is Islam a Non-Rational Religion and Civilization? | |
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| The Diversity of Reason | |
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| The Definition of Reason and Rationality | |
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| Western Conceptions of Reason | |
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| Logos and Rationality among the Greeks | |
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| Scholasticism: Reason as the Tool of Theology | |
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| Enlightenment Reason | |
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| Scientific Reason | |
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| Utilitarian Reason and Practical Rationality | |
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| Relativism | |
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| Protestant Textualism | |
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| Romanticism | |
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| The Civil War of Reason in the West | |
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| Islam and Western Conceptions of Reason | |
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| Empirical Knowledge of the Mind of God | |
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| The Enterprise of Hadith Collection | |
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| The Historicity of the Hadith | |
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| The Intellectual World of the Hadith Scholars | |
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| The Authority of the Hadith | |
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| Classification as Codification | |
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| The Historical Priority of Fiqh to Hadith | |
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| Literalist Challenge and Rationalist Cooption | |
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| The Failure of the Farabian Synthesis of Religion and Philosophy | |
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| Philosophy and Religion before Islam | |
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| The First Encounter of Islam with Philosophy: From the Syrians to Kindi | |
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| Farabi's Philosophy of Religion | |
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| Religion Subsumed within Philosophy | |
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| God as Intellect and the Intelligibility of God | |
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| Prophecy as a Matter of Psychology | |
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| The Symbolic Interpretation of Scripture | |
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| The Role of Fiqh and Kalam | |
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| The Failure of the Farabian Political Philosophy of Religion | |
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| Mysticism, Postclassical Islamic Philosophy, and the Rise and Fall of Islamic Science | |
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| The Emergence of Mysticism | |
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| Mysticism and Philosophy | |
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| Suhrawardi | |
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| Ibn 'Arabi | |
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| Aristotelianism in the Madrasas | |
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| The �Failure� of Islamic Science | |
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| Logic, Education, and Doubt | |
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| Where Is Islamic Logic? The Triumph of Scholastic Rationalism in Islamic Education | |
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| �Where Is Islamic Logic?� | |
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| Arabic Grammar | |
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| Arabic Rhetoric | |
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| Usul al-Fiqh | |
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| Kalam | |
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| Institutions and the Boundaries of Logic | |
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| The Long Afternoon of Islamic Logic | |
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| Islamic Logic to the Thirteenth Century | |
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| The Textbooks and Their Commentaries | |
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| The Educational Use of the School Logic Texts | |
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| Content of the School Logic | |
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| The Modernization of the School Logic | |
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| The Institutionalization of Disagreement | |
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| The Classical Islamic Attitude to Disagreement | |
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| An Education of Form without Content | |
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| The Fall and the Future of Islamic Rationalism | |
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| The Decline and Fall of Scholastic Reason in Islam | |
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| The Collapse of Traditional Education | |
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| �What Went Wrong?� | |
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| A Chaos of Certitudes: The Future of Islamic Reason | |
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| Disagreement in the Contemporary Islamic World | |
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| The Great Issues | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |