在阿拉伯-伊斯兰政治和思想史的主要趋势的大背景下，考察了阿卜阿尔-阿尔ā’阿尔马̻阿勒（973–1057 CE）的思想。
自由思考的诗人、语法学家、社会批评家和讽刺作家阿卜阿尔-阿尔ā阿尔马̻阿ī（973-1057 CE）仍然是阿拉伯-伊斯兰文明史上最著名、最有趣的人物之一。尽管围绕他的怀疑主义、玩世不恭和反教条主义的争议从未完全解决，但他更令人不安的作品在阿拉伯世界随处可见，被阿拉伯文学的标准历史和学术研究所引用。
Al Maèarrī被公认为伊斯兰教文学家中的一位巨人，他在阿拉伯诗歌的发展中发挥了更为严肃的宗教政治思想和社会批评工具的作用，这是当之无愧的。阿尔玛·阿雷什作为创新者的中心地位与一系列对西方人来说尤为重要的调查有关：阿尔玛·阿雷什和其他非传统思想家在多大程度上偏离了主流伊斯兰思想的道路？
在这本书中，R.凯文·莱西（R.Kevin Lacey）将阿尔玛·阿雷什（al Maïarrī）置于阿拉伯-伊斯兰政治和思想史的更广泛背景下，直到11世纪中期，并确定了他整体思想中的一致性和不一致性，以确定他偏离其继承的信仰的程度。Al-Ma̶arrī及其同僚几乎没有代表性，他们在共同宗教主义者身上的印记可能值得怀疑，但必须考虑到他们，才能充分公正地对待伊斯兰教的思想史。
All the World Is Awry: Al-Ma‛arrī and the Luzūmiyyāt, Revisited
Examines the thought of Abū al-‛Alā’ al-Ma‛arrī (973–1057 CE) within the broader context of the major trends in Arab Islamic political and intellectual history by the time of his flourishing.
Free-thinking poet, grammarian, social critic, and satirist, Abū al-‛Alā’ al-Ma‛arrī (973–1057 CE) remains one of the more celebrated and intriguing personalities in the history of Arab Islamic civilization. Although the controversies surrounding his skepticism, cynicism, and anticlericalism have never been completely resolved, his more disquieting writings are commonly available in the Arab world, cited in standard histories of Arabic literature, and the subject of scholarly studies.
Al-Ma‛arrī is universally recognized as a giant among the litterateurs of Islam, deservedly famous for the role that he played in the development of Arabic verse as a more serious vehicle of religious-political thought and social criticism. The centrality attributed to al-Ma‛arrī as innovator has been linked to a strain of inquiry that has been particularly paramount to Westerners: to what extent did al-Ma‛arrī and other unconventional thinkers stray from the course of mainstream Islamic thought?
In this book, R. Kevin Lacey places al-Ma‛arrī within the broader context of Arab Islamic political and intellectual history up to the mid-eleventh century, and identifies the coherencies and incoherencies within his overall thought in an effort to determine the extent to which he deviated from his inherited faith. Al-Ma‛arrī and his like were hardly representative, and their imprint on their co-religionists may be questionable, but they must be taken into consideration in order to do full justice to the intellectual history of Islam.
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