Islamic intellectual history in the seventeenth century : scholarly currents in the Ottoman Empire and the Maghreb /

For much of the twentieth century, the intellectual life of the Ottoman and Arabic-Islamic world in the seventeenth century was ignored or mischaracterized by historians. Ottomanists typically saw the seventeenth century as marking the end of Ottoman cultural florescence, while modern Arab nationali...

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Main Author: El-Rouayheb, Khaled (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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505 0 |a Part I. The Path of the Kurdish and Persian Verifying Scholars -- 1. Kurdish scholars and the reinvigoration of the rational sciences -- 2. A discourse of method : the evolution of adab al-bahth -- 3. The rise of deep reading -- Part II. Saving Servants from the Yoke of Imitation -- 4. Maghrebi theologian-logicians in Egypt and the Hejaz -- 5. The condemnation of imitation (taqlid) -- 6. Al-Hasan al-Yusi and two theological controversies in seventeenth-century Morocco -- Part III. The Imams of Those Who Proclaim the Unity of Existence -- 7. The spread of mystical monism -- 8. Monist mystics and neo-Hanbali traditionalism -- 9. In defense of wahdat al-wujud. 
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