DOC Organizational Leadership in Crisis: The 31st Regimental Combat Team at Chosin Reservoir; Korea; 24 November-2 December 1950 by U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in History

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In The Story of Reason in Islam; leading public intellectual and political activist Sari Nusseibeh narrates a sweeping intellectual history―a quest for knowledge inspired by the Qu'ran and its language; a quest that employed Reason in the service of Faith. Eschewing the conventional separation of Faith and Reason; he takes a fresh look at why and how Islamic reasoning evolved over time. He surveys the different Islamic schools of thought and how they dealt with major philosophical issues; showing that Reason pervaded all disciplines; from philosophy and science to language; poetry; and law. Along the way; the best known Muslim philosophers are introduced in a new light. Countering received chronologies; in this story Reason reaches its zenith in the early seventeenth century; it then trails off; its demise as sudden as its appearance. Thereafter; Reason loses out to passive belief; lifeless logic; and a self-contained legalism―in other words; to a less flexible Islam. Nusseibeh's speculations as to why this occurred focus on the fortunes and misfortunes of classical Arabic in the Islamic world. Change; he suggests; may only come from the revivification of language itself.