A Culture of Ambiguity
ISBN: 9780231553322
Platform/Publisher: De Gruyter / Columbia University Press
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In this magisterial cultural and intellectual history, Thomas Bauer reconsiders classical and modern Islam by tracing differing attitudes toward ambiguity. Over a span of many centuries, he explores the tension between one strand that aspires to annihilate all uncertainties and a competing tendency that looks for ways to live with complexity.

Thomas Bauer is professor and director of the Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Münster. He is the author of several acclaimed books in German.

Hinrich Biesterfeldt is a retired professor of Oriental philology and Islamic studies at Ruhr University Bochum.

Tricia Tunstall is an author, editor, and music educator.

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