Abu Yaqub Al-Sijistani: Intellectual Missionary; Author: Walker, Paul E.; Paperback (C Format)

Author: Walker, Paul E.
Ismaili Heritage Series; Paperback (C Format)
152 pages
Published: July 1998
I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd
ISBN: 1860642942

Paul E. Walker looks at this important missionary of the tenth century from a fresh perspective. Though long neglected by historians of Islamic philosophy, al-Sijistani's recently recoveredwritings establish him both as a philosopher and as an exponent of the intellectual understanding of Islam. The old problem of the meaning of science and religion and their interaction as reflected in the thought of an Ismaili author from the early Islamic period is now interpreted within the framework that brings together ideas and obscure doctrines surviving only piecemeal from medieval Arabic books and treatises. This book provides a coherent overview of al-Sijistani's contributions as a thinker.An overview of the contributions as a thinker of Abu Ya'qub al-Sijistani, a 10th-century missionary whose writings reveal him as both a philosopher and an exponent of the intellectual understanding of Islam.