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Taylor & Francis AlGhazali Averroes and the Interpretation of the Quran
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Taylor & Francis Islamic Life and Thought
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Islamic Law in Africa Routledge Library Editions Islam
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Islamic Law and Society in the Sudan Routledge Library Editions Islam
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Epistemology of Ibn Khaldun
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Taylor & Francis The Philosophical Poetics of Alfarabi Avicenna and Averroes The Aristotelian Reception Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
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Taylor & Francis God and Humans in Islamic Thought
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ibn Arabi Time and Cosmology Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
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Taylor & Francis The Philosophical Poetics of Alfarabi Avicenna and Averroes The Aristotelian Reception Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Revelation Intellectual Intuition and Reason in the Philosophy of Mulla Sadra An Analysis of the AlHikmah Alarshiyyah RoutledgeCurzon Sufi
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Taylor & Francis Becoming a Genuine Muslim
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cause and Explanation in Ancient Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis volume offers an updated analysis of the use, meaning, and scope of the classical notion of aitia. It clarifies philosophical and philological questions about aitia and offers bold and innovative interpretations of this key concept of ancient philosophy.The numerous meanings and nuances of aitia remain difficult to grasp. Ancient philosophers use aitia to explain the existence and activity of substances, bodies, souls, or gods. Paradoxically, its own definition remains difficult to establish. This book reconstructs some of the most important uses, variants, and scopes of the term aitia within different philosophical perspectives in antiquity, including early Greek philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism, and Islamic philosophy. The chapters analyze metaphysical aspects, epistemological issues, and logical implications of aitia. They engage with the most relevant critical literature generated in several modern languages. In doing sTable of ContentsIntroduction Alberto Ross 1. Note on the original meaning of Greek aitios David Lévystone 2. What good is the Form of the Good? Mary Margaret McCabe 3. That’s What Makes the World Go Round: Causation in the Myth in the Statesman Saloni de Souza and Daniel Vázquez 4. Chance, Necessity and Demiurgic Causation in the Timaeus Viktor Ilievski 5. Causality and Explanation in Aristotle: logos, eidos and tropos Alberto Ross 6. Aristotle with prime matter Cristina Viano 7. Aristotle on the efficiency of accidental causes José María Llovet Abascal 8. The Relevance of Environmental Conditions as Causes for Animal Generation in Aristotle María-Elena García-Peláez 9. Aristotle’s causes and the problem of the necessity of our actions Carlo Natali 10. Theories of Causation in Early Stoicism Daniel Vázquez 11. The scientific epistemology of al-Naẓẓām Michael Chase 12. Recovering Causality? Ibn Taymiyya on the Creation of the World Luis Xavier López-Farjeat
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Islamic Occasionalism
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1958.Occasionalism is generally associated in the history of philosophy with the name of Malébranche . But long before this time, the Muslim Theologians of the ninth and tenth centuries had developed an occasionalist metaphysics of atoms and accidents. Arguing that a number of distinctively Islamic concepts such as fatalism and the surrender of personal endeavour cannot be fully understood except in the perspective of the occasionalist world view of Islam, the volume also discusses the attacks on Occasionalism made by Averroes and St. Thomas Aquinas. Table of ContentsChapter 1 The Islamic Metaphysics of Atoms and Accidents; Chapter 2 The Repudiation of Causality by al-Ghaz?l?; Chapter 3 The Averroist Rehabilitation of Causality; Chapter 4 The Causal Dilemma and the Thomist Synthesis;
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Technic and Magic The Reconstruction of Reality
Book SynopsisFederico Campagna is an Italian philosopher based in London. He is the author of The Last Night: anti-Work, Atheism, Adventure (2013) and What We Are Fighting For: a Radical Collective Manifesto (2012) and visiting lecturer at Royal College of Art, UK.Trade ReviewFederico Campagna's book is a brilliant tour de force that oscillates between lucid analyses of philosophical concepts, bridging the gap between Eastern and Western frameworks, and radical propositions for alternative worlds. By attempting to galvanize human perception out of its paralyzed and bordered state, what William Blake refers to as ‘the narrow chinks of [our] cavern’, Campagna expertly unravels the very foundations upon which our contemporary reality sits. Technic and Magic gradually builds towards a new and striking reconfiguration of reality that merges together the past, present and future. -- Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director at the Serpentine Galleries, London, UKFederico Campagna’s brilliant Technic and Magic is essential reading for our desperate times. This stunning historical and philosophical exploration radically transforms our understanding of the global technological culture we now inhabit. -- Jonathan Crary, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory, Columbia University, USA, author of 24/7Both Technic and Magic are used by us to change the world. However, as Frederico Campagna argues, Technic serves the accumulation of power whereas Magic, on the contrary, protects life and its value. In his fascinating book Campagna makes a parcours through the Indian, Islamic and old Gnostic sources to discover the hidden, hermetic tradition of magical thinking that keeps its relevance also for our contemporary condition. -- Boris Groys, Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University, USACampagna takes us on a philosophically rich journey that is signposted by new terms and concepts discussed with due reference to other philosophical settings, including as they developed in Persia. His engaging prose promises to make a distinct contribution to emerging fields of knowledge. -- Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, Professor in Global Thought and Comparative Philosophies, SOAS, University of London, and Chair of the Centre for Iranian Studies at the London Middle East Institute, UKThis is a book not only for philosophers but also for poets and their readers and for all those who try to uphold the dignity of their spiritual existence. Is magic still a liveable territory? Federico Campagna asks fundamental questions but also has original suggestions how to keep this high flame alive in a radically non-magical world. -- Adam Zagajewski, poet, novelist and translator, author of 'Mysticism for Beginners: Poems'Campagna breaks with tradition by advancing scholarship that explores a common past and common understandings of meta-philosophical concepts, crossing the geopolitical barriers between the East and the West. Rarely does one see such ability to discuss complex, metaphysical and philosophic themes in a light and poetic manner - Outstanding. -- Ghoncheh Tazmini, Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS University of London, UKTable of ContentsPREFACE, ‘The Keymaker’ by Timothy Morton INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE – TECHNIC’S WORLD - Crisis of Reality - Technic - Measure and Infinity - No Outside - Crisis of Action, Crisis of Imagination CHAPTER TWO – TECHNIC’S COSMOGONY - Defining Terms - 1 Absolute Language - 2 Measure - 3 Unit - 4 Abstract General Entity - 5 Life As Vulnerability - Upper and Lower Limits: Ego Absconditus and Double Affirmation - Conclusion INTERMISSION – WHAT IS REALITY? - Between India and the West - Why Seek Reality? CHAPTER THREE – MAGIC’S COSMOGONY - Defining Terms - 1 The Ineffable as Life - 2 Person - 3 Symbol - 4 Meaning - 5 Paradox - Upper and Lower Limits: Double Negation and Deus Absconditus - Conclusion CHAPTER FOUR – MAGIC’S WORLD - Outside Within - Secret - Initiation - As if - Happy Ending Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Inc The World is My Home
Book SynopsisAs recent events indicate, Iranian, Middle Eastern, and Islamic politics more broadly have been deeply influential in world affairs. Hamid Dabashi has been a highly visible and prominent commentator on these affairs, explaining, interpreting, and providing a critical perspective. This volume gathers together his most influential and insightful writings.As one of the foremost contemporary public intellectuals and scholars of our time, Dabashi''s interests and writings span subjects ranging from Islamic philosophy and political ideology to Iranian art and Persian literature, from Sufism and Orientalism to Iranian and world cinema and contemporary Arab and Muslim visual arts; and from postcolonial theory and globalization to imperialism and public affairs. There is a direct connection between his theoretical innovations and the angle of his public interventions on the urgent global issues of the day. This book brings together some of his most important writings, especially thoseTrade Review"Where would the place be that a Muslim intellectual could call home? Where is the corner on which a homeless mind could address, in moments of some sincerity, the compelling issues of Muslim (post)modernity, of the Islamic past, of the necessity of a reconstructed "Self" and "Other," of a permanent and final disengagement with the postcolonial discourse? - Hamid Dabashi"Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart 1: Counter-Imagining Islam and IranIslams1. In the Absence of the Face2. Shi'ism as Paradox3. Counter-Imagining the SacredIslamic Ideology4. The Power of Interpretation5. Blindness and Insight: The Predicament of a Muslim IntellectualIran6. On Nations Without Borders7. Khomeini's RevolutionPart 2: Emancipatory AestheticsPoetic Revolutions8. Nima Yushij and the Constitution of a National Subject9. Forugh Farrokhzad and the Formative Forces of Iranian CultureCinematic Palpitations10. Kiarostami and Makhmalbaf11. On Signs and SignationNew Global Visual Arts12. Whither Iranian Cinema? The Perils and Promises of Globalization13. It was in China, Late One Moonless NightHamid Dabashi: A Select BibliographyIndex
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ISEAS Indonesia's Moderate Muslim Websites and Their Fight Against Online Islamic Extremism
Book SynopsisIt is worrying that, in many cases in Indonesia, exposure to the Internet, especially social media, increases knowledge seekers' religious radicalism. This exposure has not only resulted in increased radicalism but also compelled some individuals to turn to violence in the name of Islam.Moderate online media institutions have not been effective in counteracting the online dissemination of extremist religious content. The content disseminated by radical websites is still being popularly consumed, albeit those moderate Muslim websites have put in considerable effort to counteract radical narratives.This report argues that this ineffectiveness is due to structural and cultural challenges. The structural challenges include limited funding and sensitivity towards the policy of umbrella organizations. Cultural challenges include passiveness in corporate culture, alongside the "ivory tower" traditions among journalists which leaves them out of touch with Muslim communities.The government of Indonesia can assist moderate Muslim media websites in fighting radical narratives, for example, through better funding to them.
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