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The Historian’s “Unloved Stepchild” No More: The Case for Intellectual Biography as Historical Method in Islamic Studies

Series: Symposium on Law and Politics under the Abbasids

Mariam Sheibani
August 5, 2021January 27, 2024

Siddiqui’s study makes a persuasive case for why intellectual biography can best demonstrate the interaction between political, social, and intersecting lines of intellectual inquiry at a given point in history.

Can We Mediate between the Historical and the Rational? Reflections on al-Juwaynī’s Epistemology and Politics

Series: Law and Politics under the Abbasids

Mohammad H. Fadel
May 6, 2021January 27, 2024

Integrating quotidian practices into natural human reason seems to me to be the only way to provide them a secure foundation in modernity, when even deeply embodied customs cannot provide stability.

Law and Politics under the Abbasids: A Symposium

Series: Symposium on Law and Politics under the Abbasids

Omar Anchassi
May 4, 2021January 27, 2024

The coherence in the Juwaynian project is by no means assumed in this book. Rather, it is demonstrated through a painstaking reading of a number of his most influential texts in the domains of legal theory and theology.

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The Historian’s “Unloved Stepchild” No More: The Case for Intellectual Biography as Historical Method in Islamic Studies

Can We Mediate between the Historical and the Rational? Reflections on al-Juwaynī’s Epistemology and Politics

Law and Politics under the Abbasids: A Symposium