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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Surūsh, ʻAbd al-Karīm.

Contributor:

Mobasser, Nilou.

Jahanbakhsh, Forough.

Series:

Brill eBook titles 2009

Standardized Title:

Bast-i tajrubah-ʹi nabavi. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Doctrines.

Islam.

Muḥammad, Prophet, -632--Prophetic office.

Muḥammad.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (405 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-348) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-06128-7

9786613061287

90-474-2436-0

OCLC:

705367218

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004171053.i-355 DOI