New Methods in the Study of Islam / / ed. by Abbas Aghdassi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Abdul Jaleel, P.K.M.,; Abuali, Eyad,; Abubakar, Dauda,; Aghdassi, Abbas,; Akay Dağ, Esra,; Akca, Ayşe Almıla,; Christiansen, Johanne Louise,; Darwish, Housamedden,; Fierro, Maribel,; García-Sanjuán, Alejandro,; Gul, Ateeb,; Hughes, Aaron W.,; Leube, Georg,; Seise, Claudia,; Süer, Aydın,
• HerausgeberIn: Aghdassi, Abbas,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Advances in the Study of Islam
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)

Offers an innovative study of traditional and new methodologies used to study IslamBrings together a set of international voices from a variety of disciplines and fields, including religious studies, theology, philosophy, law and historyOffers an overview of what methodologies are and how they have been used in the study of IslamChallenges existing paradigms by providing alternative systems for the study of IslamProvides a set of case studies based on primary sources in Islamic studiesRevisits understandings and misunderstandings in long-established academic traditions in the study of IslamPushes the study of Islam to the forefront of methodological considerationsMethods play a key role in how we access and subsequently organise data. There is a tendency, however, for scholars to focus primarily on their data at the expense of the methodological acts that bring such data into existence in the first place. The academic study of Islam is certainly no different in this regard. Indeed, many continue to employ established or classic methods that often echo (neo-)orientalist and other political inclinations. This collection, in contrast, offers an alternative, providing a set of multi-disciplinary approaches that focus on how we create, study and disseminate “Islamic data.”

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- SERIES EDITORS’ FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION -- 1 Introduction: Why New Methods in the Study of Islam? -- Part I Methods: Old and New -- 2 New Methods, Old Methods in the Study of Islam: On the Importance of Translation -- 3 The Reception of al-Andalus, 1821–2021: Two Hundred Years of Study and Debate -- Part II Textual Studies -- 4 Subversive Philology? Prosopography as a Relational and Corpus-Based Approach to Early Islamic History -- 5 Juxtaposition, Tension, Play: The Development of Islamic Law and Legal Theory -- 6 New Theoretical Approaches to the Qurʾān and Qurʾānic Studies: An Analysis of the Qurʾānic (Disabled) Body in Light of Conceptual Metaphor and Conceptual Blending Theory -- Part III Islam and/as Critique -- 7 On the Relationship between Culture/Religion and Politics: A Critique of the Culturalist Approach to Islam -- Part IV New Comparisons -- 8 Can Comparative Theology Help Muslims to a Better Understanding of Religious Diversity? -- Part V Local Islams -- 9 Eastern or Western Paradigm: The Struggle for Methodological Dominance in the Study of Islam in Universities in Northern Nigeria -- 10 Narratives from the Peripheries: An Indian Ocean Perspective for the Study of Islam -- 11 Including Localised Islamic Concepts in the Study of Islam -- 12 Bodies, Things, Doings: A Practice Theory Approach to the Study of Islam -- Index