Neo-Mu'Tazilismus?: Intention Und Kontext Im Modernen Arabischen Umgang Mit Dem Rationalistischen Erbe Des Islam (Islamic Philosophy, Theology & ... Theology and Science. Texts and Studies) - Hardcover

Hildebrandt, Dr Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004150994 ISBN 13: 9789004150997

Publisher: Brill, 2007

Synopsis

This book examines the modern Arab rediscovery of the Muʿtazila through a critical assessment of the concept of "Neo-Muʿtazilism" and by concentrating on the various intentions and contexts of the use of Muʿtazilite ideas.
The main part of the book analyzes five ways of understanding Mu'tazilite ideas -- liberal, historic-materialist, political-Islamic, literary-exegetical and through comparison with the philosophie des valeurs -- as well as one way of dealing with the school historically: the treatment of the miḥna.
The book discusses a wide range of authors of whom many, such as Aḥmad Amīn, Ḥusain Murūwa, Ḥasan Ḥanafī, Muḥammad ʿAmāra, Naṣr Abū Zaid und Muḥammad ʿĀbid al-Ğābirī, have had an important impact on modern Arab-Islamic thought. By also presenting authors such as Zuhdī Ğārallāh, Chikh Bouamrane, Rasīd al-Ḫayyūn, Amīn Nāyif Ḏiyāb, Samīḥ Duġaim, ʿĀdil al-ʿAwwā und Fahmī Ğadʿān, additional light is shed on a number of lesser known figures.

About this title

About the Author

Thomas Hildebrandt studied Arabic and Islamic Studies in Hamburg and Leipzig. His M.A. thesis deals with Ḥasan Ḥanafī (Berlin 1998). He wrote his Ph.D. thesis in Bamberg, where he coordinates the Graduate Programme "Anthropological Foundations and Developments in Christianity and Islam"

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 9004150994
• ISBN 13: 9789004150997
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 576