{"product_id":"the-story-of-reason-in-islam-hardback-9780804794619","title":"The Story of Reason in Islam (Hardback) 9780804794619","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Story of Reason in Islam\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSari Nusseibeh (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780804794619\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 November 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This engagingly written and ambitious intellectual history of Islam will provoke much thought and response. Novel in approach and mindful of the concerns of the present, it focuses not only on the story of philosophy, but also on the hermeneutics of scripture, the understanding of the arts and sciences, and the relation between law and ethics.\" —Sajjad Rizvi,University of Exeter \"Sari Nusseibeh's \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Reason in Islam\u003c\/i\u003e is a gift to the broadminded Western reader. It comes from a man of rare moral and intellectual standing who has risked much in his life to intellectual honesty and thorough fair-mindedness. It doesn't provide quick or easy answers about modern Islam, but it does convey the depth and complexity of traditions that Western pundits too frequently seem comfortable boiling down to 140 characters. Professor Nusseibeh's book is its own best argument for judging others cautiously and assuming their best intentions.\"—Noah Kennedy, \u003ci\u003eThe Humanist\u003c\/i\u003e \"Sari Nusseibeh's \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Reason in Islam\u003c\/i\u003e is a very beautifully and thoughtfully written book.\"—Heidrun Eichner, \u003ci\u003eReading Religion\u003c\/i\u003e \"Written with the uninitiated in mind....Nusseibeh's sensitive, elliptical handling of dense metaphysical material echoes one of the book's central points: that the philosophical tradition in Arabic grew out of a world in which poetry was the preeminent means of expression....Through skillful weaving of events and ideas, Nusseibeh shows how politics determined the themes—justice, free will, the legitimacy of resisting an unjust leader—that became central to early Islamic thought.\"—Yasmine Seale, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Reason in Islam\u003c\/i\u003e, leading public intellectual and political activist Sari Nusseibeh narrates a sweeping intellectual history—a quest for knowledge inspired by the Qu'ran and its language, a quest that employed Reason in the service of Faith. Eschewing the conventional separation of Faith and Reason, he takes a fresh look at why and how Islamic reasoning evolved over time. He surveys the different Islamic schools of thought and how they dealt with major philosophical issues, showing that Reason pervaded all disciplines, from philosophy and science to language, poetry, and law. Along the way, the best known Muslim philosophers are introduced in a new light. Countering received chronologies, in this story Reason reaches its zenith in the early seventeenth century; it then trails off, its demise as sudden as its appearance. Thereafter, Reason loses out to passive belief, lifeless logic, and a self-contained legalism—in other words, to a less flexible Islam. Nusseibeh's speculations as to why this occurred focus on the fortunes and misfortunes of classical Arabic in the Islamic world. Change, he suggests, may only come from the revivification of language itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. The Arabian Desert\u003cbr\u003e  2. The Daunting Idea of God\u003cbr\u003e  3. Free Will and Determinism\u003cbr\u003e  4. The Qur'an: Created or Eternal?\u003cbr\u003e  5. From Wasil to Ibn Hanbal\u003cbr\u003e  6. Early Islam: Literacy, Conflict and Expansion\u003cbr\u003e  7. Speculative Discourse: A Style\u003cbr\u003e  8. Discourse: In Pursuit of the Ultimate Answers\u003cbr\u003e  9. Law and Morality\u003cbr\u003e  10. Al-Ma'moun and the Devil's Banquets.\u003cbr\u003e  11. The Language-Logic debate\u003cbr\u003e  12. Back to the Human Will and Language\u003cbr\u003e  13. Expanding the View\u003cbr\u003e  14. An Interlude: Caliph, Imam, and Philosopher-King\u003cbr\u003e  15. Philosophy and Politics\u003cbr\u003e  16. The Philosophers' \"\u003cbr\u003eFrenzy\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  17. Back to Wine and Logic\u003cbr\u003e  18. Motion and Light\u003cbr\u003e  19. The Nature of Truth\u003cbr\u003e  20. Fardajan and Beyond\u003cbr\u003e  21. The Cosmos\u003cbr\u003e  22. Cosmic Lights\u003cbr\u003e  23. Fast Forward\u003cbr\u003e  24. Language and Reason: The Dilemma\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551715619096,"sku":"9780804794619","price":75.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-story-of-reason-in-islam-hardback-9780804794619","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}