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Author ʻAẓm, Ṣādiq Jalāl.

Title Critique of Religious Thought : First English Translation of Naqd al-fikr ad-dini
Published Berlin : Gerlach Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (241 pages)
Contents 9783940924452; 9783940924452; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Translatorâ#x80;#x99;s Acknowledgements; Introduction to the English Edition; Introduction; 1 Scientific Culture and the Poverty of Religious Thought; 2 The Tragedy of Satan (Iblis); 3 Reply to a Criticism; 4 The Miracle of the Apparition of the Virginand the Eradication of the Traces of Aggression; 5 Deception in Contemporary Western Christian Thought; 6 Introduction to the Scientific-MaterialistConception of the Universe and its Development; Appendix 1 Documents from the Trial of the Author and PublisherDecember 1969-January 1970
Appendix 2 Statement of the Mufti of the Republic [Lebanon]about the Book â#x80;#x9C;Critique of Religious Thoughtâ#x80;#x9D
Summary Sadik al-Azm's Critique of Religious Thought set off one of the the great Arab intellectual uproars of the twentieth century, leading to the author's imprisonment and trial for mocking religion and inciting sectarian conflict. As in his earlier Self-Criticism after the Defeat, al-Azm takes on the taboos of the age and their sponsors: the religious elites. In this book he attempts to awaken the Arab mind from its dogmatic slumber, leading it out of the Middle Ages and into a modern world characterized by science and rationality. Critique of Religious Thought is one of the most controversial and
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Subject Islam -- Arab countries -- 20th century
Religious thought -- Arab countries -- 20th century
RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
Intellectual life
Islam
Religious thought
SUBJECT Arab countries -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Subject Arab countries
Form Electronic book
Author Stergios, George
ISBN 9783940924452
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