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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : El-Rouayheb, Khaled
Titre(s) : Islamic intellectual history in the seventeenth century [Texte imprimé] : scholarly currents in the Ottoman Empire and the Maghreb / Khaled El-Rouayheb,...
Publication : New York (NY) : Cambridge university press, cop. 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVI-399 p.) ; 24 cm
Comprend : The path of the Kurdish and Persian verifying scholars. Kurdish scholars and the reinvigoration
of the rational sciences ; A discourse of method : the evolution of adab al-bahth
; The rise of deep reading ; Saving servants from the Yoke of imitation. Maghrebi
theologian-logicians in Egypt and the Hejaz ; The condemnation of imitation (taqlid)
; Al-Hasan al-Yusi and two theological controversies in seventeenth-century Morocco
; The Imams of those who proclaim the unity of existence ; The spread of mystical
monism ; Monist mystics and neo-Hanbali traditionalism ; In defense of wahdat al-wujud.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"For much of the twentieth century, the intellectual life of the Ottoman and Arabic-Islamic
world in the seventeenth century was ignored or mischaracterized by historians. Ottomanists
typically saw the seventeenth century as marking the end of Ottoman cultural florescence,
while modern Arab nationalist historians tended to see it as yet another century of
intellectual darkness under Ottoman rule. This book is the first sustained effort
at investigating some of the intellectual currents among Ottoman and North African
scholars of the early modern period. Examining the intellectual production of the
ranks of learned ulema (scholars) through close readings of various treatises, commentaries,
and marginalia, Khaled El-Rouayheb argues for a more textured--and text-centered--understanding
of the vibrant exchange of ideas and transmission of knowledge across a vast expanse
of Ottoman-controlled territory" ; "Dominant narratives of Islamic intellectual history
have tended to be unkind to the seventeenth century in the Ottoman Empire and North
Africa. Three independent narratives of 'decline'--an Ottomanist, an Arabist, and
an Islamist--have converged on deprecating the period as either a sad epilogue to
an earlier Ottoman florescence or a dark backdrop to the later Arab 'renaissance'
and Islamic 'revival.' Until recently, Ottomanists typically located the heyday of
Ottoman cultural and intellectual achievement in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
After the death of Suleiman the Magnificent in 1566, the Empire was supposed to have
entered a period of long decline that affected both its political-military fortunes
and its cultural-intellectual output. Scholars of Arabic literature and thought were
inclined to view the seventeenth century as yet another bleak chapter of cultural,
intellectual and societal 'decadence' that began with the sacking of Baghdad by the
Mongols in 1258 and only came to an end with the 'Arab awakening' of the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries."
Sujet(s) : Enseignement -- Afrique du Nord -- 17e siècle
Enseignement -- Turquie -- 17e siècle
Étudiants musulmans -- Afrique du Nord -- 17e siècle
Étudiants musulmans -- Turquie -- 17e siècle
Philosophes musulmans -- Afrique du Nord -- 17e siècle
Philosophes musulmans -- Turquie -- 17e siècle
Vie intellectuelle -- Turquie -- 17e siècle
Vie intellectuelle -- Afrique du Nord -- 17e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107042964 (hardback) (alkaline paper). - ISBN 1107042968 (hardback) (alkaline
paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb443806496
Notice n° :
FRBNF44380649
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)