Islam, Modernity, and the Human Sciences

By Ali Zaidi

Book Overview

Part I: Social Theory and Dialogical Understanding * Critique and Dialogical Understanding * Part II: Muslim Debates on Social Knowledge * Muslim Reconstructions of Knowledge: the Case of Nasr and al-Faruqi * The Putative Modernity of Ibn Khaldun * Part III: Western Debates on Social Knowledge * Dilthey and the Problem of Immanence * Weber: from Nihilism to an Organic Metaphysics

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349292818
• ISBN13: 9781349292813
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"