December 2018
Intermediate to advanced
315 pages
11h 8m
English
Yohanan Friedmann
The rich theological literature of classical Islam reflects a great variety of views concerning the place of reason in determining religious truth and correct belief. In his Islamic Theology: Traditionalism and Rationalism,815 Binyamin Abrahamov has provided an illuminating and richly documented survey of the struggle between traditionalism and rationalism in the history of Islamic thought. He has shown that there is no pure rationalism in Islamic theology, because even thinkers who are closest to rationalism believe in divine revelation; but pure traditionalism is to be found in the attitudes of Islamic scholars who do not ...
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