An edition of Critique of religious thought (2015)

Critique of religious thought

First authorized English edition of Naqd al-fikr ad-dīnī.

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Critique of religious thought

First authorized English edition of Naqd al-fikr ad-dīnī.

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"With a new introduction by the author, translated by George Stergios, Sadik al-Azm's Critique of Religious Thought set off one of the the great Arab intellectual uproars of the twentieth century, leading to the author's imprisonment and trial for mocking religion and inciting sectarian conflict. As in his earlier Self-Criticism after the Defeat, al-Azm takes on the taboos of the age and their sponsors: the religious elites. In this book he attempts to awaken the Arab mind from its dogmatic slumber, leading it out of the Middle Ages and into a modern world characterized by science and rationality"--

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Gerlach Press
Language
English
Pages
229

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Subjects
Kritik, 08.37 philosophy of religion, Intellectual life, Diskurs, Islam, Religious thought
Places
Arab countries
Times
20th century

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Critique of religious thought
2015, Gerlach Press
in English - First authorized English edition of Naqd al-fikr ad-dīnī.
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Table of Contents

Translator's acknowledgements --
Introduction to the English edition --
Scientific culture and the poverty of religious thought --
The tragedy of Satan (Iblis) --
Reply to a criticism --
The miracle of the apparation of the Virgin and the eradication of the traces of aggression --
Deception in contemporary Western Christian thought --
Introduction to the scientific-materialist conception of the universe and its development --
Appendix 1: Documents from the trial of the author and publisher December 1969-January 1970 --
Appendix 2: Statement of the Mufti of the Republic [Lebanon] about the book "Critique of religious thought."

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

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Berlin, Germany

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
297.0917/492709/04
Library of Congress
BP163 .A9413 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 229 pages
Number of pages
229

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28411963M
Internet Archive
critiqueofreligi0000amdi
ISBN 10
394092444X, 3940924458, 3940924946
ISBN 13
9783940924445, 9783940924452, 9783940924940
LCCN
2015459442
OCLC/WorldCat
897734298

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