An Egyptian Medical Officer and Qurʾān Commentator in Ottoman Syria: Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Iskandarānī and His Tafāsīr in the 19th Century
Abstract This article pays a particular attention to an Arab army physician and scholar from the mid-19th century who placed empirical science at the center of Islamic thought and situated it within Qurʾānic exegetical debates. He is the Egyptian Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Iskandarānī, a medical officer...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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Oriente moderno
Year: 2021, Volume: 101, Issue: 1, Pages: 44-69 |
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medicine and Islam
B Ottoman Syria B Islam and science B Qurʾān and science B Muḥammad b. Aḥkmad al-Iskandarānī B modernist tafsīr B Tafsīr |
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