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Logic, rhetoric and legal reasoning in the Qur'ān : God's arguments / Rosalind Ward Gwynne.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: RoutledgeCurzon studies in the QuranPublisher: London : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004Description: 1 online resource (xv, 251 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 0203343085
  • 9780203343081
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Logic, rhetoric and legal reasoning in the Qur"Õan.DDC classification:
  • 297.1/2281 22
LOC classification:
  • BP134.R33 G89 2004eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • 11.81
  • BE 8612
  • EH 5405
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Contents:
The covenant -- Signs and precedents -- The Sunna of God -- Rules, commands, and reasons why -- Legal arguments -- Comparison -- Contrast -- Categorical arguments -- Conditional and disjunctive arguments -- Technical terms and debating technique -- Conclusions.
Summary: Muslims have always used verses from the Qur'an to support opinions on law, theology, or life in general, but almost no attention has been paid to how the Qur'an presents its own precepts as conclusions proceeding from reasoned arguments. Whether it is a question of God's powers of creation, the rationale for his acts, or how people are to think clearly about their lives and fates, Muslims have so internalized Qur'anic patterns of reasoning that many will assert that the Qur'an appeals first of all to the human powers of intellect. This book provides a new key to both the Qur'an and Islamic in.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)116160

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The covenant -- Signs and precedents -- The Sunna of God -- Rules, commands, and reasons why -- Legal arguments -- Comparison -- Contrast -- Categorical arguments -- Conditional and disjunctive arguments -- Technical terms and debating technique -- Conclusions.

Print version record.

Muslims have always used verses from the Qur'an to support opinions on law, theology, or life in general, but almost no attention has been paid to how the Qur'an presents its own precepts as conclusions proceeding from reasoned arguments. Whether it is a question of God's powers of creation, the rationale for his acts, or how people are to think clearly about their lives and fates, Muslims have so internalized Qur'anic patterns of reasoning that many will assert that the Qur'an appeals first of all to the human powers of intellect. This book provides a new key to both the Qur'an and Islamic in.