The Evolution of Darwin to a “Unique Christian Species” in Modernist-Apologetic Arab-Islamic Thought
Darwin's theory of evolution has been the cause of great distress and the subject of intense and constant debates among Jews, Christians and Muslims. The article analyzes why and how Sunni Muslim-Arab modernist-apologetic scholars, whose approach emphasizes the compatibility of Islam with empir...
| Published in: | Islam and Christian-Muslim relations |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2015]
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Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism BJ Islam KBQ North America TK Recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
Creationism
B Ḥusayn al-Jisr B Muḥammad al-Ghazālī B Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī B theory of evolution B Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī B American fundamentalism B science and Islam B Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā B Charles Darwin B Muḥammad ʿImāra |
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| Summary: | Darwin's theory of evolution has been the cause of great distress and the subject of intense and constant debates among Jews, Christians and Muslims. The article analyzes why and how Sunni Muslim-Arab modernist-apologetic scholars, whose approach emphasizes the compatibility of Islam with empirical sciences, shifted from reluctantly reconciling the theory of evolution with the Qur'an in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to rejecting Darwin as a fabricator and describing his theory as a Christian aberration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Through a comparative survey that focuses on the works of Ḥusayn al-Jisr (d. 1909), Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā (d. 1935), Muḥammad al-Ghazālī (d. 1996), Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī (b. 1926) and Muḥammad ʿImāra (b. 1931), the article suggests that this shift corresponded with changes in the American anti-evolutionist discourse, and that, while contemporary modernist-apologetic literature casts Darwin as illegitimate, it does not close the door to a future acceptance of the theory of evolution. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9311 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2014.950803 |