Defining Islam : a reader / edited by Andrew Rippin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rippin, Andrew, 1950-2016.

Series:

Critical categories in the study of religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Essence, genius, nature.

Islam.

Islam--21st century.

Islam--Doctrines.

Physical Description:

xiv, 388 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub., 2007.

Summary:

Defining Islam: A Reader aims to present original source material and scholarly reflections on how the word "Islam" is to be used and understood. Ever since a group of people came into existence who called themselves Muslims, questions of what it meant to be a member of that group, who was to be included and who excluded, and what the requirements for membership were, have proven to be both divisive and defining for the community itself. Likewise for scholars, the issue of what constitutes "Islam" when they talk about the emergence of the religion or when they compare local traditions or when the media debates whether the phrase "Muslim terrorist" is meaningful or appropriate, is always a central one for debate.

Contents:

Part I Theology

1 / Abu Hanifa The Epistle of Abu Hanifa to 'Uthman al-Batti 17

2 / Muhammad IBN 'ABD Al-Wahhab Ten Things That Nullify One's Islam 19

3 / Sayyid Qutb The Formation of Muslim Society and its Characteristics 24

4 / M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen The Spread of Islam 30

Part II Social Sciences

5 / Ronald A. Lukens-Bull Between Text and Practice: Considerations in the Anthropological Study of Islam 37

6 / Dale F. Eickelman The Study of Islam in Local Contexts 58

7 / Abdul Hamid M. El-Zein Beyond Ideology and Theology: The Search for the Anthropology of Islam 74

8 / Clifford Geertz Two Countries, Two Cultures 104

9 / William R. Roff Islamic Movements: One or Many? 118

10 / Barbara D. Metcalf Islam in Contemporary Southeast Asia: History, Community, Morality 136

11 / Armando Salvatore Beyond Orientalism? Max Weber and the Displacements of "Essentialism" in the Study of Islam 148

Part III Religion

12 / Duncan Black MacDonald The Muslim East as It Presents Itself 175

13 / Wilfred Cantwell Smith The Special Case of Islam 185

14 / Charles Le Gai Eaton Religion is a Different Matter 195

15 / Jacques Waardenburg Official, Popular, and Normative Religion in Islam 201

16 / Norman Calder The Limits of Islamic Orthodoxy 222

17 / Abdulkader I. Tayob Defining Islam in the Throes of Modernity 237

18 / Mohammed Arkoun Islam, Europe, the West: Meanings-at-Stake and the Will-to-Power 252

Part IV Civilization

19 / Gustave E. Von Grunebaum The Problem: Unity in Diversity 269

20 / Marshall G. S. Hodgson The Dialectic of a Cultural Tradition 288

21 / Bryan S. Turner Conscience in the Construction of Religion: A Critique of Marshall G. S. Hodgson's The Venture of Islam 308

22 / Richard Bulliet Conversion as a Social Process 323

Part V The Media

23 / Edward Said Islam and the West 335

24 / Edward Mortimer Islam and the Western Journalist 358.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1845530608

1845530616

9781845530617

9781845530600

OCLC:

70407890

Publisher Number:

99952787446