Sherman Jackson on Differences in Legal-Political Philosophy between Establishment and Non-Establishment Scholars
That al-Qarafi should concern himself with matters of government might appear at first blush to contradict the widely touted notion …
That al-Qarafi should concern himself with matters of government might appear at first blush to contradict the widely touted notion …
“Like the report of 1863, Grégoire’s seems to have taken an optimistic view. Many of the provincial assemblies discussing the …
‘Considering the number of hours that pious men and women spent awake at night in prayer, reciting the Qur’an in …
“The struggle for the revival of Hebrew as a living, modern language might provide a good illustration of the range …
“It is this desire for reciprocal recognition that leads the most authoritarian democracies to be, at times, consciously preferred by …
‘Mediaeval Europe, in contrast with today’s world, was not a place of official vernacular languages. By and large written communication …
Yaqub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi, celebrated as the Philosopher of the Arabs, soon took up the anti-Byzantine refrain. He posited a …
Nevertheless there arises the intrusive thought, out of bounds for a historian: this was the moment of the great wrong …
‘According to this view, Medieval religion, pervading or encompassing other categories, is nevertheless analytically identifiable. It is this face that …
The period between Descartes and Hegel was the great age of metaphysical system-building. In the medieval period there were many …