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Social Epistemology
A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy
Volume 10, 1996 - Issue 3-4: Islamic Social Epistemology
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Special issue on Islamic social epistemology

The Islamization of knowledge: Philosophy, legitimation, and politics

Pages 259-271 | Published online: 19 Jun 2008

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  • I have presented earlier versions of this paper at a Center for the Study of Science in Society at Virginia Tech University in 1993, the 1994 Society for the Social Studies of Science annual meetings, the 1995 Association of Third World Studies annual meetings, and in my Masters thesis at Virginia Tech University (Furlow 1993). I would like to thank everyone who has commented on this paper and earlier versions, particularly Gary L. Downey, Steve Fuller, Ellsworth Fuhrman and Ahmed Bouzid.

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