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Renewing the Method in Evaluating the Heritage
Against reading the heritage with borrowed tools and in fragments: it must be evaluated as an integrated whole and with methods drawn from its own disciplines of argument.
Introduction
Published in Casablanca in 1994, the book is Taha Abderrahmane’s methodological critique of contemporary readings of the Islamic heritage, above all that of Mohammed Abed al-Jabri. He argues that these readings dismember the heritage with tools borrowed from Western thought and evaluate its parts in isolation. Instead he calls for an integrative evaluation that understands the heritage as a coherent whole and uses methods drawn from its own disciplines, such as the art of disputation, legal theory and Sufism. The book made him one of the main voices in the Arab debate on heritage.
Connections
Criticizes
- The Formation of Arab Reason1984 · Mohammed Abed al-Jabri
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