Neo-Mu?tazilismus?: Intention Und Kontext Im Modernen Arabischen Umgang Mit Dem Rationalistischen Erbe Des Islam

This book examines the modern Arab rediscovery of the Mu?tazila through a critical assessment of the concept of "Neo-Mu?tazilism" and by concentrating on the various intentions and contexts of the use of Mu?tazilite ideas.
The main part of the book analyzes five ways of understanding Mu'tazilite ideas - liberal, historic-materialist, political-Islamic, literary-exegetical and through comparison with the philosophie des valeurs - as well as one way of dealing with the school historically: the treatment of the miḥna.
The book discusses a wide range of authors of whom many, such as Aḥmad Amin, Ḥusain Muruwa, Ḥasan Ḥanafi, Muḥammad ?Amara, Naṣr Abu Zaid und Muḥammad ?Abid al-Gabiri, have had an important impact on modern Arab-Islamic thought. By also presenting authors such as Zuhdi Garallah, Chikh Bouamrane, Rašid al-Ḫayyun, Amin Nayif Ḏiyab, Samiḥ Dugaim, ?Adil al-?Awwa und Fahmi Gad?an, additional light is shed on a number of lesser known figures.