Islam, Modernity, and the Human Sciences
Description
Ali Zaidi discloses a largely unnoticed dialogue between Muslim and Western social thought on the search for meaning and transcendence in the human sciences. This disclosure is accomplished by a comparative reading of Muslim debates on secular knowledge on the one hand and of Western debates on the putative death of metaphysics in the human sciences on the other hand. The analysis is grounded in dialogical hermeneutics; that is, a hermeneutic approach to texts and cultural traditions that draws upon the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer and upon the insights of inter-religious dialogue.
Keywords
Social ScienceSociology of ReligionReligionPsychology of ReligionIslamTheologySociologySocial TheoryPsychology
2011Book
Author(s)Ali Hassan Zaidi
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US
ISBN9780230110359
LanguageEnglish
