02060cam a2200217 a 4500020001800000020001500018041000800033082001500041100002300056245004700079260004300126300001900169520063900188520074400827650002001571650001001591650003701601856006801638856006801706856006801774  a9780230110359  a0230110355  aENG00a300.1bZAI1 aZaidi, Ali Hassan,10aIslam, modernity, and the human sciences /  aNew York :bPalgrave Macmillan,c2011.  axiii, 217 p. ;  a"This book discloses a largely unnoticed dialogue between Muslim and Western social thought on the search for meaning and transcendence in the human sciences. The disclosure is accomplished by a comparative reading of contemporary Muslim debates on secular knowledge on the one hand, and of a foundational Western debate on the demise of metaphysics in the human sciences on the other hand. The comparative reading is grounded in a dialogical hermeneutic approach; that is, a hermeneutic approach to texts and cultural traditions that draws upon the work of Hans Georg Gadamer and also upon the insights of inter-religious dialogue"--  a"This book serves as a "translation service" between Muslim and Western social thought on the search for meaning and transcendence in the human sciences. The translation is accomplished by a comparative reading of contemporary Muslim debates on secular knowledge on the one hand and of a foundational Western debate on the demise of metaphysics in the human sciences on the other hand. The book challenges contemporary Muslim critics who regard the modern human sciences as leading inevitably toward nihilism, and Western critics who regard religious thought as inimical to the human sciences. It also expands the realm of social theory beyond the Western canon, and contributes to the new and growing field of comparative social theory"-- 0aSocial sciences 0aIslam 0aChristianity and other religions42uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1101/2010045118-b.html42uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1101/2010045118-d.html41uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1106/2010045118-t.html