Exposition
Al-Amiri is presented as a thinker who blends jurisprudence, theology, philosophy, and moral history, with a form of coercive dogmatic rationalism in some aspects of judgment. His significance lies in that he represents a model of epistemic construction that returns reason to religion and uses it to закрепify the legitimacy and superiority of Islam.
Mentioned in
- The choice of the Hanafi method as an epistemic choice
- Critical humanism reconnects Islam with reason, freedom, and history
- Actual history and true history
- Civilization and culture are used to assert superiority and discipline human beings
- Al-Amiri makes history, rationality, and reading subordinate to a religious end
- Al-Amiri employs reason but remains within an enclosed traditional framework
- Dogmatic rationalism in Al-Amiri
- Religious knowledge as the basis for the other sciences
- Writing performs a preparatory and enforceable function
- Religious knowledge in Al-Amiri’s project is built on methodological blending and a hierarchical ordering of the sciences
- The subordination of reason to religion in Al-Amiri
- Islam’s superiority through postulates
- Al-Amiri’s blending of jurisprudence and philosophy
- Al-Amiri’s texts reveal a medieval mind serving the religious norm
- Critique of Al-Amiri’s arithmetical exposition