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  title info:
    title: Razi
    sub title: master of Qur'anic interpretation and theological reasoning
  name:
    name part: Jaffer, Tariq
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 244 pages ; 25 cm.
  table of contents: Razi's escape from taqlid in philosophy -- Razi's escape from taqlid in exegesis -- The Qurʼan's method -- Razi's engagement with the Muʻtazila -- The opponents of Muʻtazilite taʼwil -- Razi's critique of classical Ashʻarism -- Razi's integration of the Muʻtazilite interpretive method into Sunnism -- The epistemological criterion for taʼwil -- Razi's rationalist objection to scripture -- The priority of reason over scripture -- The rational justification for the Prophet's credibility -- Miracles and the boundaries of reason -- The reception of Razi's methodology in Islamic traditionalism: Ibn Taymiyya on Tazi -- Razi's appropriation of Avicenna's philosophical exegesis -- Razi's reception of Ghazali's interpretation of light -- Razi's divergences from Avicenna and Ghazali: light as the bestowal of knowledge -- Razi's exegesis on the soul (nafs) and spirit (ruḥ): structure and strategy -- The soul's quiddity (mahiyya) and its temporal origination (ḥuduth) -- The soul's relation to the body -- Razi's doctrine on the vital spirit (ruḥ) -- The soul's separability: sleep and death -- The Prophet's soul.
  note: Tariq Jaffer.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Rāzī, Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar
      name part: 1149 or 1150-1210
  subject:
    topic: Islamic philosophy
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Islam
    topic: Doctrines
    topic: History
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Qurʼan
    topic: Criticism, interpretation, etc
    topic: History
  classification: B753.R44 J34 2015
  classification: 297.2092
  identifier: 9780199947997 (hardcover)
  identifier: 0199947996 (hardcover)
  identifier: 9780199948000 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 0199948003 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9780199345946 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 0199345945 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 2014013275
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140404
    record change date: 20151206125042.0
    record identifier: in00003520478