A Rationality Immersed in Religiosity: Reason and Religiosity in Abu’l Fazl’s Oeuvre

Harbans Mukhia

DOI:10.1177/0971945820907406

Corpus ID: 216444210

A Rationality Immersed in Religiosity: Reason and Religiosity in Abu’l Fazl’s Oeuvre

@article{Mukhia2020ARI,
  title={A Rationality Immersed in Religiosity: Reason and Religiosity in Abu’l Fazl’s Oeuvre},
  author={Harbans Mukhia},
  journal={The Medieval History Journal},
  year={2020},
  volume={23},
  pages={50 - 73}
}

Harbans Mukhia

Published 2020

Philosophy

The Medieval History Journal

Abu’l Fazl is often invested with a dichotomy between reason and religion, grandly upholding the majesty of reason (mā’qūlāt) over received blind faith (taqlīd), drawing inspiration from varied sources but falling short of going the distance towards ‘scientific rationality’. Abu’l Fazl’s rationality had little in common with it; it was rooted in a new dichotomy he was constituting, one between universal religiosity and denominational religions, thus redefining dīn. Sulh-i kul (Absolute peace… CONTINUE READING

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