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Logic, Rhetoric and Legal Reasoning in the Qur'an: God's Arguments book cover

1st Edition

Logic, Rhetoric and Legal Reasoning in the Qur'an God's Arguments

By Rosalind Ward Gwynne Copyright 2004
272 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge
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Muslims have always used verses from the Qur'an to support opinions on law, theology, or life in general, but almost no attention has been paid to how the Qur'an presents its own precepts as conclusions proceeding from reasoned arguments. Whether it is a question of God's powers of creation, the rationale for his acts, or how people are to think clearly about their lives and fates, Muslims have so... Read more
Acknowledgments  Introduction  1. The Covenant  2. Signs and Precedents  3. The Sunna of God  4. Rules, Commands, and Reasons Why  5. Legal Arguments  6. Comparison  7. Contrast  8. Categorical Arguments  9. Conditional and Disjunctive Arguments  10. Technical Terms and Debating Technique  11. Conclusions

Biography

Rosalind Ward Gwynne studied at Portland State University, the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies, Shemlan, Lebanon, and the University of Washington. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Yemen. She is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee.

'A study of the forms and content of the Qur'an's argument and how it pertains to religion is very welcome indeed and Gwynne is to be commended for broaching this topic.' - The Muslim World Book Review

'The result is a unique study on the form of the Qur'anic arguement that will be of interest to Qur'an scholars, Biblical scholars, classicists, theologians, logicians, legal philosophers, rhetoricians and philosophers alike.'  - Jawad A Quereshi

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