Lived Islam : colloquial religion in a cosmopolitan tradition / A. Kevin Reinhart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reinhart, A. Kevin, 1952- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--21st century.

Islam.

Islam--Essence, genius, nature.

Physical Description:

xv, 189 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Does Islam Make People Violent? Does Islam Make People Peaceful? in This Book, Kevin Reinhartdemonstrates that such questions are misleading, because they assume that Islam is a monolithic essence and that Muslims are made the way they are by this monolith. He argues that Islam, like all religions, is complex and thus best understand through analogy with language: Islam has dialects, a set of features shared with other versions of Islam. It also has cosmopolitan elites who prescribe how Islam ought to be, even though these experts, depending on where they practice the religion, unconsciously reflect their own local dialects. Reinhart defines the distinctive features of Islam and investigates how modernity has created new conditions for the religion. Analyzing the similarities and differences between modern and pre-modern Islam, he clarifies the new and old in the religion as it is lived in the contemporary world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. How Scholars Study Islam; Lived And Colloquial Islam

3. Dialect Islam: The Islam of Differences

4. Shared Islam: The Koiné Islam

5. Cosmopolitan Islam: The Standard Islam of The Scholars

6. Modern Islam

Conclusion

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Reinhart, A. Kevin, 1952- Lived Islam

ISBN:

9781108704007

110870400X

9781108483278

1108483275

OCLC:

1107804964