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Understanding the Qur'anic miracle stories in the modern age / Isra Yazicioglu.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Signifying (on) ScripturesPublisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2013]Description: 1 online resource (ix, 222 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780271062563
  • 9780271062570
  • 0271062576
  • 0271062568
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Understanding the Qur'anic miracle stories in the modern ageDDC classification:
  • 297.1/226 23
LOC classification:
  • BP166.65 .Y39 2013eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
In Defense of a literal reading of miracles: Ghazali's case for contingency and grace -- A cautious approach to miracle stories: Ibn Rushd's case for rationalism and divine wisdom -- David Hume on empiricism, common sense, and miracles -- Charles S. Peirce on pragmatism, science, and miracles -- Said Nursi's contemporary reading of Qur'anic miracle stories -- Qur'anic hermeneutics in the modern age.
Summary: "Explores the implications of Quranic miracle stories for the modern era. Examines the medieval Muslim debate over miracles, and connects its insights with early and late modern turning points in modern Western thought as well as contemporary Quranic interpretation"-- Provided by publisher
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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)686733

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-208) and index.

In Defense of a literal reading of miracles: Ghazali's case for contingency and grace -- A cautious approach to miracle stories: Ibn Rushd's case for rationalism and divine wisdom -- David Hume on empiricism, common sense, and miracles -- Charles S. Peirce on pragmatism, science, and miracles -- Said Nursi's contemporary reading of Qur'anic miracle stories -- Qur'anic hermeneutics in the modern age.

"Explores the implications of Quranic miracle stories for the modern era. Examines the medieval Muslim debate over miracles, and connects its insights with early and late modern turning points in modern Western thought as well as contemporary Quranic interpretation"-- Provided by publisher

Print version record.