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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Main Author: Ali, Mansur (Author)
Contributors: Malik, Shoaib Ahmed (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2023
In: Theology and science
Year: 2023, Volume: 21, Issue: 4, Pages: 732-744
Review of:Islam and evolution (London : Routledge, 2021) (Ali, Mansur)
IxTheo Classification:BJ Islam
NBD Doctrine of Creation
NBE Anthropology
Further subjects:B human exceptionalism
B Book review
B Pedagogy
B theistic evolution
B plain sense reading
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1474-6719
Reference:Kritik in "Defending ‘Islam and Evolution: Al-Ghazālī and the Modern Evolutionary Paradigm': Abrahamic Dialogues and Interdisciplinary Insights (2023)"
Contains:Enthalten in: Theology and science
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2023.2255954