New Methods in the Study of Islam /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.)
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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

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