History of Islamic Thought and Spirituality

Teacher(s)

Azaiez Mehdi;

Language

French

Main themes

• The Tawhid (Divine unicity) as an originary vision of the world
• The ethics and foundations of religion: the moral values and their foundation
• Polemics on fundamentals - Fitra, God and the Quran
• The currents of Muslim thought within Sunni and Shiah: humanism, pluralism and globality
• Faith and interreligious debate in relation to the question of Muslim monotheism and the space it allows for freedom and human responsibility

Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	- analyse the Islamic religious conception and the most important principles of Muslim thought; - situate the debates Muslim thought has given rise to in history, as well as the schools of Kalam (the major tendencies in the constitution of that thought); - grasp the (convergent and/or divergent) relationships between the principiological fundamen­tals and the mystical dimension of Islam.

Bibliography

(Sélection pour compte-rendus)
Addas Claude, La Maison muhammadienne. Aperçus de la dévotion au Prophète en mystique musulmane, Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Bibliothèque des Sciences humaines », 2015.
Arkoun (Mohammed), L’humanisme arabe au IVe/Xe siècle. Miskawayh, Philosophe et historien, Paris, Vrin, 1982. 
Benkheira (Mohamed Hocine), L’amour de la loi. Essai sur la normativité en Islam, Paris, PUF, 1997. 
Benkheira (Mohamed Hocine), La maîtrise de la concupiscence mariage, célibat et continence sexuelle en Islam des origines au Xe/XVIe siècles, Paris, Vrin 2017. 
Chahrour (Mohammad), Pour un islam humaniste, trad. Makram Abbès, Paris, Cerf, ("Islam, Nouvelles Approches"), 2019.
Davary (Bahar), Women and the Qurʾān, A Study in Islamic Hermeneutics, Lewiston NY, Edwin Mellen Press, 2009.
Fakhry (Majid), A history of Islamic philosophy, New York, Columbia University Press, 2004.
Kraemer (Joel L.), Humanism in the Renaissance of Islam. The Cultural Revival during the Buyid Age, Leiden, Brill, 1992.  
Lory Pierre, Les commentaires ésotériques du Coran d’après ‘Abd ar-Razzâq al-Qâshânî. Paris, Les Deux Océans, 1980.
Nelson (Kristina), The art of reciting the Qur’an, Le Caire/New York, American University in Cairo Press, 2002.
Oulddali (Ahmed), Raison et révélation en Islam : Les voies de la connaissance dans le commentaire coranique de Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (m. 606/1210), Leyde, Brill, ("Islamic History and Civilization, Volume : 156"), 2019.
Saeed (Abdullah), Reading the Qur'an in the Twenty-First Century: A Contextualist Approach, London, New-York, Routledge, 2014. 
Sangaré (Youssouf), Le scellement de la prophétie en islam (khatm al-nubuwwa), avec une préface du Pr. Abdelmajid Charfi, Paris, Geuthner, 2018.

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