The expansion of prophetic experience : essays on historicity, contingency and plurality in religion / / by Abdulkarim Soroush ; translated by Nilou Mobasser ; edited with analytical introduction by Forough Jahanbakhsh.

• Author: Surūsh, ʻAbd al-Karīm.
• TeilnehmendeR: Mobasser, Nilou.; Jahanbakhsh, Forough.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill eBook titles 2009
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (405 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Bast-i tajrubah-ʹi nabavi.; Preliminary Materials --; The Expansion Of Prophetic Experience --; The Last Prophet-1 --; The Last Prophet-2 --; Essentials And Accidentals In Religion --; Maximalist Religion, Minimalist Religion --; Straight Paths-1an Essay On Religious Pluralism --; Positive And Negative --; Straight Paths-2 A Conversation On Religious Pluralism --; Types Of Religiosity --; The Prophet Present --; Prophets Unheard --; Faith And Hope --; Spiritual Guardianship And Political Guardianship --
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-348) and index.
• ISBN: 1283061287; 9786613061287; 9047424360
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Abdulkarim Soroush ; translated by Nilou Mobasser ; edited with analytical introduction by Forough Jahanbakhsh.

Abdulkarim Soroush is known primarily for his epistemological/hermeneutical theory, the “Contraction and Expansion of Religious Knowledge,” and its application to Islamic political theory and religious pluralism. While his Reason, Freedom and Democracy in Islam applies that theory to plurality and the historicity of understanding and interpretation of religion, this book captures some of his original theories about religion itself. The Expansion of Prophetic Experience treats the historicity of the Prophet Muhammad’s revelatory experience, including human and contextual influences on the genesis of the sacred Text. It presents substantial aspects of Soroush’s Neo-Rationalist hermeneutical project for an Islamic reformed theology and ethics, systematically leading Islamic reformation beyond conventional projects of piecemeal adjustments to the Shariʿah or selective re-interpretations of the Qurʾān.