The Human Being as the Mystery of Kun Fa Kān: An Engagement with Shoaib Ahmed Malik’s Islam and Evolution: Al-Ghazālī and the Modern Evolutionary Paradigm
The theory of evolution has supposedly displaced human beings from their lofty positions as unique special creatures and placed them within a process of evolution where they are nothing more than a species that has evolved from primitive ones and will be eclipsed by more superior ones. In this artic...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2023
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Theology and science
Year: 2023, Volume: 21, Issue: 4, Pages: 732-744 |
| Review of: | Islam and evolution (London : Routledge, 2021) (Ali, Mansur)
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| IxTheo Classification: | BJ Islam NBD Doctrine of Creation NBE Anthropology |
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human exceptionalism
B Book review B Pedagogy B theistic evolution B plain sense reading |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | The theory of evolution has supposedly displaced human beings from their lofty positions as unique special creatures and placed them within a process of evolution where they are nothing more than a species that has evolved from primitive ones and will be eclipsed by more superior ones. In this article, I engage with Malik's book using a plain sense reading of Islamic scripture. I single out “human exceptionalism” as the optimum view that fits a plain sense reading of scripture as well as one that has the potential to pacify Muslim concerns about evolution. |
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| ISSN: | 1474-6719 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Defending ‘Islam and Evolution: Al-Ghazālī and the Modern Evolutionary Paradigm': Abrahamic Dialogues and Interdisciplinary Insights (2023)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology and science
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2023.2255954 |
