| Logic, Rhetoric and Legal Reasoning in the Qur'an: God's Arguments Contributor(s): Gwynne, Rosalind Ward (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415554195 ISBN-13: 9780415554190 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $66.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2009 Annotation: This book provides a new key to both the Qur'an and Islamic intellectual history. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Islam - Koran & Sacred Writings - History | Middle East - General - Social Science | Regional Studies |
| Dewey: 297.122 |
| Series: Routledge/Curzon Studies in the Quran |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.76 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Muslims have always used verses from the Qur'an to support opinions on law, theology, or life in general, but almost no attention has been paid to how the Qur'an presents its own precepts as conclusions proceeding from reasoned arguments. Whether it is a question of God's powers of creation, the rationale for his acts, or how people are to think clearly about their lives and fates, Muslims have so internalized Qur'anic patterns of reasoning that many will assert that the Qur'an appeals first of all to the human powers of intellect. This book provides a new key to both the Qur'an and Islamic intellectual history. Examining Qur'anic argument by form and not content helps readers to discover the significance of passages often ignored by the scholar who compares texts and the believer who focuses upon commandments, as it allows scholars of Qur'anic exegesis, Islamic theology, philosophy, and law to tie their findings in yet another way to the text that Muslims consider the speech of God. |