Averroes und die arabische Moderne

Ansätze zu einer Neubegründung des Rationalismus im Islam
Erscheinungsjahr 1994
ISBN: 978-90-04-09955-5
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Deutsch, Band 19, 463 Seiten, Gewicht: 982 g

Reihe: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies

Prominent Arab intellectuals of our century, Christian, Muslim, secularist and fundamentalist, consider the disregard for the rationalism of Averroes (Ibn Rusd, 1126-1198), who once stirred Europe with his commentaries on Aristotle, to be a major reason for the decay of Islamic culture. They criticize both Islamic reform movements and mere westernization and try with Ibn Rusd's help to spread critical, rational and realistic thinking, in order to place the Arabs on a cultural par with the West.
This volume analyzes for the first time the different philosophical and historical approaches and social aims of authors like FarahÌ£ Anṭūn, MuhÌ£ammad ‘Ammāra, MuhÌ£ammad al-ǦābirÄ«, hÌ£asan hÌ£anafÄ« and tÌ£ayyib TÄ«zÄ«nÄ« within the framework of the Arabic reception of Ibn Rusd since the end of the 19th century.
This work was rewarded with the Ernst-Reuther-Preis for outstanding dissertations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kügelgen, Anke von

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Über Autor(innen)

Anke von Kügelgen, Ph.D. (1992) in Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.