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Papers derived from a seminar entitled "Intellectual Traditions in Islam," organized by The Institute of Ismaili Studies at the Mellor Centre, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, August 14-20, 1994.

Intellectual Life in the First Four Centuries of Islam / Hugh Kennedy -- Scientific and Philosophical Enquiry: Achievements and Reactions in Muslim History / Oliver Leaman -- The Rational Tradition in Islam / Muhsin Mahdi -- The Limits of Islamic Orthodoxy / Norman Calder -- Intellectual Life among the Ismailis: An Overview / Farhad Daftary -- Nasir Khusraw: Fatimid Intellectual / Alice C. Hunsberger -- Reason and Mystical Experience in Sufism / Annemarie Schimmel -- Some Observations on the Religious Intellectual Milieu of Safawid Iran / John Cooper -- Woman, Half-the-Man? The Crisis of Male Epistemology in Islamic Jurisprudence / Abdulaziz Sachedina -- Present-Day Islam Between its Tradition and Globalization / Mohammed Arkoun.

This work explores the role of the intellect in the legal, theological, philosophical, and mystical traditions of Islam, and of its continuing relevance in the efforts of the contemporary Muslim world to address the challenges of modernity. Leading scholars who have included chapters -- all originally written for this book -- include Mohammad Arkoun, Norman Calder, John Cooper, Muhsin Mahdi, Abdulaziz Sachedina, Annemarie Schimmel, and others.