Mapping Islamic studies : genealogy, continuity, and change / editor, Azim Nanji.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nanji, Azim.

Series:

Religion and Reason

Religion and Reason ; 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--20th century--Miscellanea.

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 pages)

Edition:

Reprint 2011

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.

Contents:

Front matter

Preface

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONTRIBUTORS

Introduction / Nanji, Azim

The Study of Islam in German Scholarship / Waardenburg, Jacques

The Study of Islam in French Scholarship / Arkoun, Mohammed

The Study of Islam in British Scholarship / Bosworth, C. Ε.

The Study of Islam in Dutch Scholarship / Waardenburg, Jacques

The Study of Islam in Russia and the Former Soviet Union: An Overview / Mikoulski, Dimitri

The Cultural and Intellectual Background of German Orientalism / Roche-Mahdi, Sarah

The Image of Islam in the Medieval and the Early Modern Period / Daniel, Norman

The Study of Islam, Orientalism and America / Mahdi, Muhsin

Islamic Studies and the History of Religions: An Evaluation / Waardenburg, Jacques

Rethinking Islam Today / Arkoun, Mohammed

Selected Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-270).

ISBN:

9783110811681

3110811685

OCLC:

1013945721