商品簡介
In this book the development of Islamic freethinking is analyzed against the background of the significance of prophets in Islam. The author examines the image of freethinkers and the repercussions of freethinking on Muslim, Jewish and Christian medieval thought.
作者簡介
Sarah Stroumsa, Ph.D. (1984), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the Alice and Jack Ormut Professor Emerita of Arabic Studies. She taught in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature and the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she served as the Rector of the University from 2008 until 2012. Her academic interests include the history of philosophical and theological thought in Arabic in the early Islamic Middle Ages, Medieval Judaeo-Arabic literature, and the intellectual history of Muslims and Jews in Islamic Spain. She is the author of:Maimonides in his World: Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker (Princeton, 2010) andDawud al-Muqammas, Twenty Chapters (Provo, Utah, forthcoming in 2016).
