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Author Surūsh, ʻAbd al-Karīm.

Title The expansion of prophetic experience : essays on historicity, contingency and plurality in religion / by Abdulkarim Soroush ; translated by Nilou Mobasser ; edited with analytical introduction by Forough Jahanbakhsh
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (l, 355 pages)
Contents Introduction ---- PART I. 1. The Expansion of Prophetic Experience --- 2. The Last Prophet 1 --- 3. The Last Prophet 2 --- 4. Essentials and Accidentals in Religion --- 5. Maximalist Religion, Minimalist Religion --- 6. Straight Paths-1: an Essay on Religious Pluralism --- 7. Straight Paths-2: a Conversation on Religious Pluralism --- PART II. 8. Types of Religiosity --- 9. The Prophet Present --- 10. Prophets Unhead --- 11. Faith and Hope --- 12. Spiritual Guardianship and Political Guardianship ---- Appendixes. 1. The Word of Mohammad. An Interview with Abdulkarim Soroush --- 2. Ayatollah Sobhani's First Letter --- 3. Bashar and Bashir, Soroush's First Response to Sobhani --- 4. Ayatollah Sobhani's Second Letter --- 5. The Parrot and the Bee. Soroush's Second Response to Sobhani
Summary Abdulkarim Soroush is known primarily for his epistemological/hermeneutical theory, the 'Contraction and Expansion of Religious Knowledge, ' and its application to Islamic political theory and religious pluralism. While his "Reason, Freedom and Democracy in Islam" applies that theory to plurality and the historicity of understanding and interpretation of religion, this book captures some of his original theories about religion itself. "Expansion of Prophetic Experience" treats the historicity of the Prophet Muhammad's revelatory experience, including human and contextual inf
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-348) and index
Notes Translated from the Persian
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Subject Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 -- Prophetic office.
SUBJECT Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 fast
Mohhammed, ... gnd
Subject Islam -- Doctrines.
RELIGION -- Islam -- Theology.
Islam -- Doctrines
Messiah -- Prophecies
Doktrin
Islam
Islamische Theologie
Prophetie
Religiöse Bildung
Religiöse Erfahrung
Religiöser Pluralismus
Form Electronic book
Author Mobasser, Nilou.
Jahanbakhsh, Forough.
LC no. 2008035400
ISBN 9789047424369
9047424360
1283061287
9781283061285
9786613061287
661306128X
Other Titles Basṭ-i tajrubah-ʼi nabavī. English