Palgrave Macmillan | Muslim And Supermuslim: The Quest For The Perfect Being And Beyond (2020 EN)

Author: Roy Jackson
Full Title: Muslim And Supermuslim: The Quest For The Perfect Being And Beyond
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2020 edition (February 6, 2020)
Year: 2020
ISBN-13: 9783030370930 (978-3-030-37093-0), 9783030370923 (978-3-030-37092-3), 9783030370954 (978-3-030-37095-4)
ISBN-10: 3030370933, 3030370925, 303037095X
Pages: 198
Language: English
Genre: Islamic Theology
File type: PDF (True)
Quality: 10/10
Price: 85.59 €


This book looks to the rich and varied Islamic tradition for insights into what it means to be human and, by implication, what this can tell us about the future human. The transhumanist movement, in its more radical expression, sees Homo sapiens as the cousin, perhaps the poorer cousin, of a new Humanity 2.0: ‘Man’ is replaced by ‘Superman’. The contribution that Islam can make to this movement concerns the central question of what this ‘Superman’ – or ‘Supermuslim’ – would actually entail. To look at what Islam can contribute we need not restrict ourselves to the Qur’an and the legal tradition, but also reach out to its philosophical and literary corpus. Roy Jackson focuses on such contributions from Muslim philosophy, science, and literature to see how Islam can confront and respond to the challenges raised by the growing movement of transhumanism.


Overview:
✓ Explores transhumanism from an Islamic point of view
✓ Seeks insight from Islamic religious canon as well as from works of philosophy, literature, and poetry
✓ Presents an alternative vision of Islam that has more kinship with transhumanist ideals than many may presume

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