An Egyptian Medical Officer and Qurʾān Commentator in Ottoman Syria: Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Iskandarānī and His Tafāsīr in the 19th Century

Abstract This article pays a particular attention to an Arab army physician and scholar from the mid-19th century who placed empirical science at the center of Islamic thought and situated it within Qurʾānic exegetical debates. He is the Egyptian Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Iskandarānī, a medical officer...

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Main Author: Daneshgar, Majid (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: Oriente moderno
Year: 2021, Volume: 101, Issue: 1, Pages: 44-69
Further subjects:B medicine and Islam
B Ottoman Syria
B Islam and science
B Qurʾān and science
B Muḥammad b. Aḥkmad al-Iskandarānī
B modernist tafsīr
B Tafsīr
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