NMC381H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Islamization, Religious Pluralism, Theodemocracy
14 Mar 2017
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Bottom line: dates and places and the details of people not needed overview think across topics and make connections. Reminder: stay on time for reviews (re) interpretations. Overview reason and rationalism, hermeneutics, reformist projects. Reason and revelation/religion reason can of course mean many different things deduction/inquiry or the outcome of deduction. A faith in reason // reason will lead to progress. Challenge the emphasis on reasoning modernist muslim thinkers. Can you enter modernity without embracing autonomous reasoning. If you believe without doubt, you are happier. Muatazila 8th 10th school of theology draws on greek mythology pro reason movement. Two aspects: liberal revival of the approach that reason compatible with revelation // rationalist tendencies precede the age of enlightenment. Religion has become too overriding taken from kant. Written on orientalism critical of edward said. He himself tried to read western thought. Founder of jamaat e islami in pakistan.
