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ajiss-2042	Safi, Louay M.	Reason, Authority and the Text	2000.0	3	.pdf	application/pdf	898	31	32	Yet, they all felt compelled to deny the relevance of religion and religious sources for human understanding and knowledge, and they were all deter- mined to establish the autonomy of human reason. Power of Reason The intellectual impasse we all face today may be traced back to the Enlightenment scholars' efforts to sever human values from their transcen- dental base, and to marginalize the irqportance of religious beliefs, or the lack thereof, in shaping the scholar's attitude, and in providing the tran- scendental presuppositions essential for social research.	cache/ajiss-2042.pdf	txt/ajiss-2042.txt