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Title Defining Islam : a reader / edited by Andrew Rippin
Published London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub., 2007

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Series Critical categories in the study of religion
Critical categories in the study of religion.
Contents Part I Theology -- 1 / Abu Hanifa The Epistle of Abu Hanifa to 'Uthman al-Batti 17 -- 2 / Muhammad IBN 'ABD Al-Wahhab Ten Things That Nullify One's Islam 19 -- 3 / Sayyid Qutb The Formation of Muslim Society and its Characteristics 24 -- 4 / M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen The Spread of Islam 30 -- Part II Social Sciences -- 5 / Ronald A. Lukens-Bull Between Text and Practice: Considerations in the Anthropological Study of Islam 37 -- 6 / Dale F. Eickelman The Study of Islam in Local Contexts 58 -- 7 / Abdul Hamid M. El-Zein Beyond Ideology and Theology: The Search for the Anthropology of Islam 74 -- 8 / Clifford Geertz Two Countries, Two Cultures 104 -- 9 / William R. Roff Islamic Movements: One or Many? 118 -- 10 / Barbara D. Metcalf Islam in Contemporary Southeast Asia: History, Community, Morality 136 -- 11 / Armando Salvatore Beyond Orientalism? Max Weber and the Displacements of "Essentialism" in the Study of Islam 148 -- Part III Religion -- 12 / Duncan Black MacDonald The Muslim East as It Presents Itself 175 -- 13 / Wilfred Cantwell Smith The Special Case of Islam 185 -- 14 / Charles Le Gai Eaton Religion is a Different Matter 195 -- 15 / Jacques Waardenburg Official, Popular, and Normative Religion in Islam 201 -- 16 / Norman Calder The Limits of Islamic Orthodoxy 222 -- 17 / Abdulkader I. Tayob Defining Islam in the Throes of Modernity 237 -- 18 / Mohammed Arkoun Islam, Europe, the West: Meanings-at-Stake and the Will-to-Power 252 -- Part IV Civilization -- 19 / Gustave E. Von Grunebaum The Problem: Unity in Diversity 269 -- 20 / Marshall G. S. Hodgson The Dialectic of a Cultural Tradition 288 -- 21 / Bryan S. Turner Conscience in the Construction of Religion: A Critique of Marshall G. S. Hodgson's The Venture of Islam 308 -- 22 / Richard Bulliet Conversion as a Social Process 323 -- Part V The Media -- 23 / Edward Said Islam and the West 335 -- 24 / Edward Mortimer Islam and the Western Journalist 358
Subject Islam -- Essence, genius, nature.
Islam -- 21st century.
Islam -- Doctrines.
Islam -- 1800-
Islam.
Islam -- Doctrines.
Islam -- Essence, genius, nature.
Islam
Islam.
Form Electronic book
Author Rippin, Andrew, 1950-2016
ISBN 9781134936274
1134936273