The Quran and the secular mind a philosophy of Islam /

Akhtar, Shabbir (1960-....)

The Quran and the secular mind a philosophy of Islam / [Texte imprimé] : Shabbir Akhtar - New York, NY : Routledge, 2008 - 1 vol. ([X]-400 p.) : couv. ill. ; 23 cm

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Notes bibliogr.

Pt. I. Quranic Islam and the secular mind -- Locating Islam in the modern world -- Human reason and divine revelation -- The moral challenge of secular humanism -- Pt. II. An Arabic Quran: assessing its authority -- The book sent down -- The book as the frustrater -- The scope of the book -- The authority of the book -- Pt. III. A Quranic Lebenswelt in a secular age -- A sign is enough - for the wise -- Faith and the varieties of rejection -- Human nature and the Quran -- greater is God! -- Pt. IV. Conclusions -- Preface to a philosophy of Islam.

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Koran Islam and secularism. Islamic philosophy.

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