Islamic HumanismTable of Contents Abbreviations and Short Titles Introduction 3 1 The Sacred and the Secular 30 Focus and Distraction 33 Poetry and Music 34 Dress and Display 43 Dunya and Din - in Wine, War, and Love 47 Play, the Hunt, and the Freedom of the Dandy 67 2 Humanism and Islamic Ethics 82 Islamic Ethics in Theory and Practice 88 Miskawayh's Courtly Humanism 101 Ghazali's Appropriation 112 3 Being and Knowing 122 Being and Becoming 122 Knowledge as a Value 143 4 The Rise of Universal Historiography 161 The Birth of Arabic Historiography 164 The Roots of Annalistic 171 Baladhuri's Narrative Strategy 174 Greek and Biblical Models 176 Universal History 180 Tabari's Synthesis 182 Saadiah's Historical Orientation 186 Mas'udi 189 The Triumph of Synthetic History 195 Miskawayh's Historiography 199 Local Chronicles and Biographical Dictionaries 201 Rashid al-Din's Universal History 202 Ibn Khaldun 204 Notes 213 Bibliography 251 Index 261. |
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