“All Beneficial Knowledge is Revealed”: : The Rational Sciences in the Maghrib in the age of al-Yūsī (d. 1102/1691)
The intellectual history of the Muslim world during the post-formative period is poorly understood compared to the centuries in which the initial development of the principal Islamic intellectual traditions occurred. This article examines the legal status of the natural sciences in the thought of th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2014
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Islamic law and society
Year: 2014, Volume: 21, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 49-80 |
| Further subjects: | B
categorization of knowledge
B Morocco in the seventeenth century B legal status of natural science B post-formative intellectual developments in Islam |
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| Summary: | The intellectual history of the Muslim world during the post-formative period is poorly understood compared to the centuries in which the initial development of the principal Islamic intellectual traditions occurred. This article examines the legal status of the natural sciences in the thought of the Moroccan scholar al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī (d. 1102/1691) and his contemporaries, both in terms of the categorization of knowledge and in terms of developments in conceptions of causality in post-formative Ashʿarī theology. In the latter respect, al-Yūsī’s writings on causality are compared to those of his contemporary in Damascus, ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī, with attention to the broader historiographic perils in comparing intellectual developments in the Early Modern period to those occurring in Europe. By placing al-Yūsī’s views in intellectual context, I seek to demonstrate how a more productive history of the natural sciences in the post-formative Muslim world might be written. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5195 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Islamic law and society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685195-02112p02 |