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This volume contains selections of Ockham's philosophical writings which give a balanced introductory view of his work in logic

God and Logic in Islam: The Caliphate of Reason usil al fiqh and self-determinationThis 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, John Walbridge argues that rational methods, not fundamentalism, have characterized Islamic law, philosophy, and education since the medieval period. His research demonstrates that this medieval Islamic rational tradition was opposed by both modernists and fundamentalists,