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Theology and Philosophy of Pluralism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2021

Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Souleymane Bachir Diagne*
Affiliation:
Columbia University
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Abstract

This essay is a reflection on the very notion of “pluralism” examined in a philosophical and theological approach. It evokes Quranic verses on pluralism and then examines the thoughts of different Muslim thinkers on the question, such as al-Farabi (d. 950), al-Ghazali (1058–1111) in the tenth and twelfth centuries, and Tierno Bokar Salif Tall (1875–1939), from Mali, in the twentieth.

Keywords

PluralismIslamQur'anIslamic theologyPhilosophy
Type
Special Focus: Pluralism in Emergenc(i)es in the Middle East and North Africa
Information
Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , December 2020 , pp. 289 - 293
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Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Middle East Studies Association of North America, Inc.

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References

1 He shared with me his views, using that phrase, in private conversations.

2 Diagne, Souleymane Bachir, Open to Reason. Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition (New York: Columbia University, 2018)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Ba, Amadou Hampate, A spirit of Tolerance: The Inspiring Life of Tierno Bokar, trans. Casewit, Fatima Jane (Wisdom, 2007)Google Scholar.