[Dean's World] Ali Eteraz: Islam And The Primacy Of Reason

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Posted by Ali Eteraz:
Islam And The Primacy Of Reason
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1175222521.shtml


   I asked before if there was a place for pure rationalism in Islam and
   [1]provided an example of one such thinker.

   Now, in an [2]article about Islamic Enlightenment we see:

     Between 750 and 1050, authors made use of a surprising freedom of
     thinking in their approach to religions and to the phenomenon of
     belief. In their analyses, they bowed to the primacy of reason,
     honoring one of the basic principles of the Enlightenment. This
     phenomenon took place during a period of effervescence, of intense
     intellectual exchange, that Islam experienced a little more than a
     century after its advent, when its followers were seeking to
     develop a tradition capable of confronting much more sophisticated
     systems of thought. This was also a time when newcomers to Islam
     continued to remember theological systems and questions raised by
     the beliefs that had seen them come into being or evolve (like
     Judaism, various Christian sects, Manicheism, or Zoroastrianism).
     [3]Continue reading @ Unwilling Self-Negation.

References

   1. http://eteraz.org/story/2006/12/28/85713/999
   2. http://www.logosjournal.com/issue_5.3/meddeb.htm
   3. http://eteraz.wordpress.com/2007/03/29/islam-and-the-primacy-of-reason/