Title Islamic intellectual history in the seventeenth century : scholarly currents in the Ottoman Empire and the Maghreb / Khaled El-Rouayheb

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 399 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Introduction -- Part I: "The path of the Kurdish and Persian verifying scholars". Kurdish scholars and the reinvigoration of the rational sciences ; A discourse on method : the evolution of Ādāb al-baḥth ; The rise of "deep reading" -- Part II: Saving servants from the yoke of imitation. Maghrebı̄ "theologian-logicians" in Egypt and the Hejaz ; The condemnation of imitation (Taqlı̄d) ; al-Ḥasan al-Yūsı̄ and two theological controversies in seventeenth-century Morocco -- Part III: The imams of those who proclaim the unity of existence. The spread of mystical monism ; Monist mystics and Neo-Ḥanbalı̄ traditionalism ; In defense of Waḥdat al-Wujūd -- Conclusion Summary For much of the twentieth century, the intellectual life of the Ottoman and Arabic-Islamic world in the seventeenth century was ignored or mischaracterized by historians. Ottomanists typically saw the seventeenth century as marking the end of Ottoman cultural florescence, while modern Arab nationalist historians tended to see it as yet another century of intellectual darkness under Ottoman rule. This book is the first sustained effort at investigating some of the intellectual currents among Ottoman and North African scholars of the early modern period. Examining the intellectual production of the ranks of learned ulema (scholars) through close readings of various treatises, commentaries, and marginalia, Khaled El-Rouayheb argues for a more textured - and text-centered - understanding of the vibrant exchange of ideas and transmission of knowledge across a vast expanse of Ottoman-controlled territory-- Provided by Publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 13, 2015) Subject Learning and scholarship -- Turkey -- History -- 17th century Learning and scholarship -- Africa, North -- History -- 17th century Muslim scholars -- Turkey -- History -- 17th century Muslim scholars -- Africa, North -- History -- 17th century Muslim philosophers -- Turkey -- History -- 17th century Muslim philosophers -- Africa, North -- History -- 17th century HISTORY -- Middle East -- General. Intellectual life Learning and scholarship Muslim philosophers Muslim scholars Islam Geistesleben SUBJECT Turkey -- Intellectual life -- 17th century Africa, North -- Intellectual life -- 17th century Subject North Africa Turkey Osmanisches Reich Maghreb Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781316358023 131635802X 9781107337657 1107337658 1107617561 9781107617568 1316363422 9781316363423 1316362426 9781316362426 1316364429 9781316364420

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