Arabic thought and Islamic societies

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This is a study of the structure and composition of the official learning current in medieval Arabic culture. This comprises natural sciences both exoteric and esoteric (medicine, alchemy, astrology and others), traditional and religious sciences (such as theology, exegesis and grammar), philosophical sciences such as metaphysics and ethics, in addition to technical disciplines like political theory and medicine, and other fields of intellectual endeavour. The book identifies and develops a num…

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Full title :Arabic thought and Islamic societies / by Aziz Al-Azmeh.

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Publication Date:2013.

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Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

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Originally published in 1986.

Title from PDF title page (viewed July 26, 2013).

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781134607464, 1134607466, 9780203381465, 0203381467, 9781134607600, 1134607601, 9781134607532, 1134607539, 9780415830720, 0415830729, 9781138912533, 1138912530
oclc:ocn854332228
LC Classification:DS36.855
Dewey Decimal:909.09767

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Metaphysical Foundations of Arabic Thought, 1: Hierarchy, Substance and Combination; The Great Chain of Being; The Constitution of Composite Beings; Elemental and Somatic Composites; Composition, Justice and the Social Order; 2. Metaphysical Foundations, 2: Relations of Creation, Sympathy and Analogy; Humanity and Spirituality; God and Man; Occult Sympathies; Divine Will and Human Acts; 3. A Special Relation: Signification; Knowledge and its Object.

Knowledge and the Arabic LanguageInterpretation and Symbolism; 4. The Constitution of Islamic and Foreign Sciences; The Structure of Scientific Formations; Authority and the Classification of Sciences; The Content and Form of Islamic and Foreign Sciences; 5. The Institution and Continuity of Scientific Formations; Criteria of Illicit Knowledge; The Formation of Dogmatic and Legal Schools; The Institutionalisation of Learning; Pedagogic Authority and the Formation of Traditions; 6. Concluding Notes: Scientific Knowledge and the Social Order; The Social and Utopian Being of the 'Ulamā'

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