What Is Islam? : : The Importance of Being Islamic / / Shahab Ahmed.
What is Islam? How do we grasp a human and historical phenomenon characterized by such variety and contradiction? What is "Islamic" about Islamic philosophy or Islamic art? Should we speak of Islam or of islams? Should we distinguish the Islamic (the religious) from the Islamicate (the cul...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (624 p.) :; 12 halftones. 1 map. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Part One. Questions
- What Is “Islam”?
- CHAPTER 1. Six Questions about Islam
- PART TWO. Conceptualizations
- CHAPTER 2. Islam as Law, islams-not- Islam, Islamic and Islamicate, Religion and Culture, Culture and Civilization
- CHAPTER 3. Religion and Secular, Sacred and Profane, Theocentric and Anthropocentric, Total Social Fact, Family Resemblance
- CHAPTER 4. Culture, Meaning, Symbol System, Core and Nucleus, Whatever Muslims Say It Is, Discursive Tradition, Orthodoxy, Process
- PART THREE. Re-Conceptualizations
- CHAPTER 5. Hermeneutical Engagement, Pre-Text, Text, and Con-Text, Meaning-Making for the Self, Spatiality of Revelation, Hierarchy, Exteriority-Interiority, Public and Private, Language and Vocabulary, Ambivalence and Ambiguity, Metaphor and Paradox
- CHAPTER 6. Applications and Implications
- The Importance of Being Islamic
- Works Cited
- Index