| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 465 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Theorizing Islam in World History -- Introduction to Shattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence (1998) -- Islam in Afro-Eurasia: A Bridge Civilization (2010) -- Muslim Cosmopolitanism (2012) -- Genius Denied and Reclaimed: Hodgson's The Venture of Islam (2014) -- Revaluing Muslim Comparativists -- Al-Biruni: Against the Grain (2014) -- Shahrastani on Indian Idol Worship (1973) -- Introduction to Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah (2005/2015) -- Mystical and Rational Elements in the Early Religious Writings of Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1979) -- Translating Institutional Sufism -- Can Sufi Texts Be Translated? Can They Be Translated from Indo-Persian to American-English? (1990) -- "What Is a Sufi Order? 'Golden Age' and 'Decline' in the Historiography of Sufism," from Sufi Martyrs of Love: The Chishti Order in South Asia and Beyond (2002, Coauthored with Carl W. Ernst) -- Sufism and Neo-Sufism (2010) -- "Allah Remembered: Practice of the Heart," from Who Is Allah? (2015) -- Deconstructing Religious Modernity -- "Fundamentalism as a Religious Ideology in Multiple Contexts" and Conclusion, from Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt against the Modern Age (1989) -- "The Shah Bano Case," from On Violence: A Reader (2007) -- Introduction to Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden (2005) -- Muslim Engagement with Injustice and Violence (2013) -- Networking Muslim Citizenship -- Preface and Conclusion, from New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life (2002) -- "W. D. Mohammed: Qur'an as Guide to Racial Equality," from The Qur'an: A Biography (2006) -- Introduction to Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop (2005, Coauthored with Miriam Cooke) -- "AIDS Victims and Sick Women: Qur'an as Prescription for Mercy," from The Qur'an: A Biography (2006) -- Reflecting the Divine Other in Words and Images -- Approximating Saj in English Renditions of the Qur'an: A Close Reading of Sura 93 (al-Ḍuḥā) and the Basmala (2005) -- Epilogue to The Qur'an: A Biography (2006) -- A Metaphysical Secularist? Decoding M. F. Husain as a Muslim Painter in Exile (2011) -- Conclusion, from Who Is Allah? (2015) -- The Future of Islamic Studies: Bruce B. Lawrence Interviewed by Ali Altaf Mian |
| Summary |
"This Reader assembles over two dozen selection of writing by leading scholar of Islam Bruce B. Lawrence which range from analyses of premodern and modern Islamic discourses, practices, and institutions to methodological and theoretical reflections on the study of religion."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Islam.
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Islam.
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RELIGION / Islam / General
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Islam
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mian, Ali Altaf, 1981- editor., writer of the introduction.
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| LC no. |
2020017614 |
| ISBN |
147801282X |
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9781478012825 |
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