| Description |
1 online resource (344 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in comparative religion |
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Introduction: Toward a post-orientalist Islamic approach to Islamic religious studies / Carl W. Ernst and Richard C. Martin -- Rethinking modernity: Islamic perspectives: Reasons public and divine: liberal democracy, shariʻa fundamentalism, and the epistemological crisis of Islam / Vincent J. Cornell -- The misrecognition of a modern Islamist organization: Germany faces "fundamentalism" / Katherine Pratt Ewing -- Between "ijtihad of the presupposition" and gender equality: cross-pollination between progressive Islam and Iranian reform / Omid Safi -- Fundamentalism and the transparency of the Arabic Qur'an -- A. Kevin Reinhart -- Can we define "true" Islam? African American Muslim women respond to transnational Muslim identities / Jamillah Karim -- Rethinking religion: social scientific and humanistic perspectives: Who are the Islamists? / Charles Kurzman and Ijlal Naqvi -- Sufism, exemplary lives, and social science in Pakistan / David Gilmartin -- Formations of orthodoxy: authority, power, and networks in Muslim societies / Richard C. Martin and Abbas Barzegar -- Caught between enlightenment and romanticism: on the complex relation of religious, ethnic, and civic identity in a modern "museum culture" / Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. -- Rethinking the subject: Asian perspectives: The subject and the ostensible subject: mapping the genre of hagiography among South Asian Chishtis / Tony K. Stewart -- Dancing with khusro: gender ambiguities and poetic performance in a Delhi dargah / Scott Kugle -- The perils of civilizational Islam in Malaysia / Carl W. Ernst -- History and normativity in traditional Indian Muslim thought: reading shariʻa in the hermeneutics of Qari Muhammad Tayyab (d. 1983) / Ebrahim Moosa -- Afterword: competing genealogies of Muslim cosmopolitanism / Bruce B. Lawrence |
| Summary |
A groundbreaking response to the challenges of interpreting Islamic religion in the post-9/11 and post-Orientalist era |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Orientalism.
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Islam -- Study and teaching.
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Orientalism.
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RELIGION -- Fundamentalism.
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RELIGION -- Islam -- History.
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RELIGION / Islam / General
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Islam -- Study and teaching
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Orientalism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Martin, Richard C., editor.
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Ernst, Carl W., 1950- editor.
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| LC no. |
2009051152 |
| ISBN |
9781611172317 |
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1611172314 |
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1283855704 |
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9781283855709 |
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