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Rethinking Islamic studies : from orientalism to cosmopolitanism / edited by Carl W. Ernst and Richard C. Martin.

Contributor(s): Ernst, Carl W, 1950- | Martin, Richard C
Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in comparative religion (Columbia, S.C.): Publisher: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: x, 333 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781570038938 (pbk : alk. paper); 1570038937 (pbk : alk. paper)Subject(s): Islam -- Study and teaching | OrientalismDDC classification: 297.09 LOC classification: BP42 | .R48 2010Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Toward a post-orientalist approach to Islamic religious studies / Carl W. Ernst and Richard C. Martin -- Rethinking modernity: Islamic perspectives -- Reasons public and divine: liberal democracy, shariʻa fundamentalism, and the epistemological crisis of Islam / Vincent J. Cornell -- The misrecognition of a modern Islamist organization: Germany faces "fundamentalism" / Katherine Pratt Ewing -- Between "ijtihad of the presupposition" and gender equality: cross-pollination between progressive Islam and Iranian reform / Omid Safi -- Fundamentalism and the transparency of the Arabic Qur'an / A. Kevin Reinhart -- Can we define "true" Islam? African American Muslim women respond to transnational Muslim identities / Jamillah Karim -- Rethinking religion: social scientific and humanistic perspectives -- Who are the Islamists? / Charles Kurzman and Ijlal Naqvi -- Sufism, exemplary lives, and social science in Pakistan / David Gilmartin -- Formations of orthodoxy: authority, power, and networks in Muslim societies / Richard C. Martin and Abbas Barzegar -- Caught between enlightenment and romanticism: on the complex relation of religious, ethnic, and civic identity in a modern "museum culture" / Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. -- Rethinking the subject: Asian perspectives -- The subject and the ostensible subject: mapping the genre of hagiography among South Asian Chishtis / Tony K. Stewart -- Dancing with Khusro: gender ambiguities and poetic performance in a Delhi dargah / Scott Kugle -- The perils of civilizational Islam in Malaysia / Carl W. Ernst -- History and normativity in traditional Indian Muslim thought: reading shariʻa in the hermeneutics of Qari Muhammad Tayyab (d. 1983) / Ebrahim Moosa -- Afterword: competing genealogies of Muslim cosmopolitanism / Bruce B. Lawrence.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BP42 .R48 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903362651

"Earlier versions of these papers were persented in a symposium, 'Islam in theory and practice,' held at Duke University in January 2006."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Toward a post-orientalist approach to Islamic religious studies / Carl W. Ernst and Richard C. Martin -- Part 1: Rethinking modernity: Islamic perspectives -- Reasons public and divine: liberal democracy, shariʻa fundamentalism, and the epistemological crisis of Islam / Vincent J. Cornell -- The misrecognition of a modern Islamist organization: Germany faces "fundamentalism" / Katherine Pratt Ewing -- Between "ijtihad of the presupposition" and gender equality: cross-pollination between progressive Islam and Iranian reform / Omid Safi -- Fundamentalism and the transparency of the Arabic Qur'an / A. Kevin Reinhart -- Can we define "true" Islam? African American Muslim women respond to transnational Muslim identities / Jamillah Karim -- Part 2: Rethinking religion: social scientific and humanistic perspectives -- Who are the Islamists? / Charles Kurzman and Ijlal Naqvi -- Sufism, exemplary lives, and social science in Pakistan / David Gilmartin -- Formations of orthodoxy: authority, power, and networks in Muslim societies / Richard C. Martin and Abbas Barzegar -- Caught between enlightenment and romanticism: on the complex relation of religious, ethnic, and civic identity in a modern "museum culture" / Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. -- Part 3: Rethinking the subject: Asian perspectives -- The subject and the ostensible subject: mapping the genre of hagiography among South Asian Chishtis / Tony K. Stewart -- Dancing with Khusro: gender ambiguities and poetic performance in a Delhi dargah / Scott Kugle -- The perils of civilizational Islam in Malaysia / Carl W. Ernst -- History and normativity in traditional Indian Muslim thought: reading shariʻa in the hermeneutics of Qari Muhammad Tayyab (d. 1983) / Ebrahim Moosa -- Afterword: competing genealogies of Muslim cosmopolitanism / Bruce B. Lawrence.

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