TY - BOOK ID - 7018063 TI - Islamic humanism PY - 2003 SN - 0195189140 9780195189148 PB - Oxford : Oxford university press, DB - UniCat KW - Islam and humanism KW - Islam and social problems KW - Human rights KW - Philosophy, Islamic KW - Religious aspects KW - Islam KW - Human rights - Religious aspects - Islam UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7018063 AB - 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. ER -