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Islamic Humanism

This book is an attempt to explain how, in the face of increasing religious authoritarianism in medieval Islamic civilization, some Muslim thinkers continued to pursue essentially humanistic, rational, and scientific discourses in the quest for knowledge, meaning, and values. Drawing on a wide range of Islamic writings, from love poetry to history to philosophical theology, Goodman shows that medieval Islam was open to individualism, occasional secularism, skepticism, even liberalism.

Circumstantial data about each caliph's names, birth and ancestry, regime,
counselors, and death make the monarchical figures focal points, about whom
the anecdotes sketch the image of a personality and the spirit of an age. The titles
of his ...