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041			_aENG
082	0	0	_a300.1 _bZAI
100	1		_aZaidi, Ali Hassan,
245	1	0	_aIslam, modernity, and the human sciences /
260			_aNew York : _bPalgrave Macmillan, _c2011.
300			_axiii, 217 p. ;
520			_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"--
520			_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"--
650		0	_aSocial sciences
650		0	_aIslam
650		0	_aChristianity and other religions
856	4	2	_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1101/2010045118-b.html
856	4	2	_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1101/2010045118-d.html
856	4	1	_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1106/2010045118-t.html
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