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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Materials -- Chapter One The Expansion Of Prophetic Experience -- Chapter Two The Last Prophet-1 -- Chapter Three The Last Prophet-2 -- Chapter Four Essentials And Accidentals In Religion -- Chapter Five Maximalist Religion, Minimalist Religion -- Chapter Six Straight Paths-1an Essay On Religious Pluralism -- Positive And Negative -- Chapter Seven Straight Paths-2 A Conversation On Religious Pluralism -- Chapter Eight Types Of Religiosity -- Chapter Nine The Prophet Present -- Chapter Ten Prophets Unheard -- Chapter Eleven Faith And Hope -- Chapter Twelve Spiritual Guardianship And Political Guardianship -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.