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The Formation of Arab Reason: Text, Tradition and the Construction of Modernity in the Arab World - Contemporary Arab Scholarship in the Social Sciences Mohammed Abed Al-Jabri
The Formation of Arab Reason: Text, Tradition and the Construction of Modernity in the Arab World - Contemporary Arab Scholarship in the Social Sciences
Mohammed Abed Al-Jabri
Charts a route towards modernity via the proposition that respect for textualism and tradition are not inconsistent with rationalism and that both history and philosophy are key to the evolution of knowledge systems and ways of reasoning in Arab culture. This book provides an insight into the currents of contemporary Arab thought.
464 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 15, 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9781848850613 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Pages | 480 |
| Dimensions | 165 × 240 × 37 mm · 881 g |
| Language | English |