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02702aam a2200409 i 4500 001 8AF06E6E8FC011ECBA4AA6A62FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220217010136 008 200218s2020 sz b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 3030370925 020 $a 9783030370923 035 $a (OCoLC)1144754461 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCL $d LQU $d SILO 050 4 $a B842.5 $b .J33 2020 082 04 $a 144 $2 23 082 04 $a 297.01 $2 23 100 1 $a Jackson, Roy, $d 1962- $e author. 245 10 $a Muslim and supermuslim : $b the quest for the perfect being and beyond / $c Roy Jackson. 264 1 $a Cham, Switzerland : $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2020. 300 $a vii, 198 pages ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a Palgrave studies in the future of humanity and its successors 520 $a 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 Quran 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. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: The Future of the Human -- Chapter 1. Blurring the Boundaries -- Chapter 2. Secular Transhumansim as Scientism? -- Chapter 3. The reification of Islam and the rise of tele-techno-scientific reason -- Chapter 4. The Perennial Human and Beyond -- Chapter 5. Beyond the Empirical Agent -- Chapter 6. Transcending the Human. 650 0 $a Transhumanism. 650 0 $a Islam $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Islamic philosophy. 650 0 $a Humanism. 650 7 $a Transhumanism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst02008985 650 7 $a Humanism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00963520 650 7 $a Islam $x Philosophy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00979820 650 7 $a Islamic philosophy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01730358 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9783030370930 830 0 $a Palgrave studies in the future of humanity and its successors. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231018021525.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8AF06E6E8FC011ECBA4AA6A62FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search