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

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.
Subjects:
Learning and scholarship > Turkey > History > 17th century.
Learning and scholarship > Africa, North > History > 17th century.
Muslim scholars > Turkey > History > 17th century.
Muslim scholars > Africa, North > History > 17th century.
Muslim philosophers > Turkey > History > 17th century.
Muslim philosophers > Africa, North > History > 17th century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
Turkey > Intellectual life > 17th century.
Africa, North > Intellectual life > 17th century.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.