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Islamic intellectual history, as a book category, covers the development and circulation of ideas, texts, and debates in Muslim societies from the formative period of the seventh century to the modern era. It includes the study of theology (kalam), law (fiqh and usul), Qurʾanic exegesis, philosophy (falsafa), Sufism (tasawwuf), scientific and literary thought, and the interactions of Muslim thinkers with Greek, Jewish, Christian, South Asian and European traditions. Works in this category examine key figures, institutions (madrasas, courts, libraries), languages (Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu, etc.), and the social, political and intellectual contexts that shaped doctrinal controversies, reform movements, and responses to colonialism and modernity. Methodologically interdisciplinary, the field encompasses intellectual history, textual scholarship, biography, and cultural and social analysis to illuminate how ideas were produced, transmitted, and transformed across time and space.

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