Investigating Butterworth’s Interpretation of Islamic Political Philosophy

The present paper is the first essay which investigates Charles E. Butterworth’s interpretation of Islamic political philosophy. Butterworth’s main concern is to understand and interpret Islamic political philosophy based on interpretive approach, according to which Islamic political philosophy has...

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Main Author: Mohsen Rezvani
Format: Article
Language:fas
Published: Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies (IHCS) 2013-03-01
Series:حکمت معاصر
Online Access:http://wisdom.ihcs.ac.ir/article_755_1da07b9b9db07669bd4f66b0c41f07e5.pdf
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Summary:The present paper is the first essay which investigates Charles E. Butterworth’s interpretation of Islamic political philosophy. Butterworth’s main concern is to understand and interpret Islamic political philosophy based on interpretive approach, according to which Islamic political philosophy has originality. However, Butterworth’s dual interpretation of Islamic political philosophy and particularly incomplete understanding of contemporary Islamic political philosophy caused him fails to withdraw himself from the historical approach, according to which Islamic political philosophy has no originality
ISSN:2383-0689
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