This book investigates the central role of reason in Islamic intellectual life. Despite widespread characterization of Islam as a system of belief based only on revelation, JohnWalbridge argues that rational methods, not fundamentalism, have characterized Islamic law, philosophy, theology, and education since the medieval period. His research demonstrates that this medieval Islamic rational tra...

Rees Davies’s questioning of the current fashion for talking about medieval states (Davies, 2003) is characteristically stimulating and persuasive. Not surprisingly, in view of his references to my essay on the historiography of the medieval state (Reynolds, 1997), I nevertheless find it not persuasive enough. I agree with a lot of what he says but the main thrust of his argument seems to me to...

This is an introduction to the Symposium on “Evolution, Original Sin, and Fall,” which has been designed as a thematic section for Zygon: Journal of Religion Science. The investigates enduring question whether hamartiology (the theological study sin) compatible with evolutionary theory. We trace origins this debate between Modernists Traditionalists at turn previous century. Our contributors ma...

This essay argues that attending to the bibliographic codes of early and multiple versions can enhance our understandings material forms texts in ways George Bornstein modeled Material Modernism. Focusing on modernist women’s complex engagements with print cultures, analyzes pages from Willa Cather’s novel The Professor’s House, Zora Neale Hurston’s short story “Sweat”, Gwendolyn Brooks’s sonne...

nationalism and modernism, and the relationship between them from the perspective of different scholars and schools of thought have always been a subject of debate. many scholars have concerned themselves with the concepts of ethnicity, nation, and nationalism and their relationship with modernism and modern age. the main controversy among scholars and schools of thought have centered on the is...