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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ernst, Carl W., 1950-

Martin, Richard C.

Series:

Studies in comparative religion (Columbia, S.C.)

Studies in comparative religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ernst, Carl W., 1950-.

Ernst, Carl W.

Martin, Richard C.

Islam--Study and teaching.

Islam.

Orientalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 pages)

Place of Publication:

Columbia, SC : University of South Carolina Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rethinking Islamic Studies offers original perspectives for the discipline, each utilizing the tools of modern academic inquiry, to help illuminate contemporary incarnations of Islam for a growing audience of those invested in a sharper understanding of the Muslim world.

Contents:

Introduction: Toward a post-orientalist Islamic 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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283855709

1283855704

9781611172317

1611172314

OCLC:

821216890

Publisher Number:

2027/heb30810 hdl