The Human Being as the Mystery of Kun Fa Kān: An Engagement with Shoaib Ahmed Malik’s Islam and Evolution: Al-Ghazālī and the Modern Evolutionary Paradigm
The theory of evolution has supposedly displaced human beings from their lofty positions as unique special creatures and placed them within a process of evolution where they are nothing more than a species that has evolved from primitive ones and will be eclipsed by more superior ones. In this artic...
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Medienart: | Elektronisch Review |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Routledge
2023
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Theology and science
Jahr: 2023, Band: 21, Heft: 4, Seiten: 732-744 |
Rezension von: | Islam and evolution (London : Routledge, 2021) (Ali, Mansur)
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IxTheo Notationen: | BJ Islam NBD Schöpfungslehre NBE Anthropologie |
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human exceptionalism
B Rezension B Pedagogy B theistic evolution B plain sense reading |
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Zusammenfassung: | The theory of evolution has supposedly displaced human beings from their lofty positions as unique special creatures and placed them within a process of evolution where they are nothing more than a species that has evolved from primitive ones and will be eclipsed by more superior ones. In this article, I engage with Malik's book using a plain sense reading of Islamic scripture. I single out “human exceptionalism” as the optimum view that fits a plain sense reading of scripture as well as one that has the potential to pacify Muslim concerns about evolution. |
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ISSN: | 1474-6719 |
Bezug: | Kritik in "Defending ‘Islam and Evolution: Al-Ghazālī and the Modern Evolutionary Paradigm': Abrahamic Dialogues and Interdisciplinary Insights (2023)"
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Enthält: | Enthalten in: Theology and science
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2023.2255954 |