Thomas Bauer

Pérdida de la Ambigüedad, La

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Produktbeschreibung

In this essay, Thomas Bauer reconsiders classical and modern Islam by tracing differing attitudes toward ambiguity. Over a span of many centuries, he explores the tension between one strand that aspires to annihilate all uncertainties and establish absolute, uncontestable truths and another, competing tendency that looks for ways to live with ambiguity and accept complexity. Bauer ranges across cultural and linguistic ambiguities, considering premodern Islamic textual and cultural forms from law to Quranic exegesis to literary genres alongside attitudes toward religious minorities and foreigners. He emphasizes the relative absence of conflict between religious and secular discourses in classical Islamic culture, which stands in striking contrast to both present-day fundamentalism and much of European history. Bauer shows how Islam's encounter with the modern West and its demand for certainty helped bring about both Islamicist and secular liberal ideologies that in their own ways rejected ambiguity―and therefore also their own cultural traditions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Herder & Herder
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2022
• Spanisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 124mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 153g
• ISBN-13: 9788425448089
• ISBN-10: 8425448085
• Artikelnr.: 65253580

Autorenporträt

Thomas Bauer es profesor de filología árabe en la Universidad de Münster y autor de varios libros. En 2012 fue galardonado con el Premio Leibniz.