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An anthropology of the Qur'an / Ahmed Achrati.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Achrati, Ahmed, author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in religion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Qurʼan--Sociology.
- Qurʼan.
- Sociology.
- Islamic sociology.
- Anthropology of religion--Islamic countries.
- Anthropology of religion.
- Islamic countries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Ahmed Achrati holds an LL.B from the University of Oran, Algeria, an LL.M from New York University School of Law, and a PhD in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania. He continues to do research in anthropology and prehistoric rock art. Currently, he teaches courses on the Qur'an and Modern Society and Prehistoric Rock Art at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in the Washington, DC, area.
- Contents:
- Part I. Introduction
- 1. Religion, the Holy and the Sacred: An Anthropological Perspective
- 2. Al-Quddūs (The Holy) and Transcendental Écart in the Qur'ān
- 3. Ontological Distinction of the Holy and the Sacred in the Qur'ān
- 4. Transcendence and Divine Freedom in the Qur'ān
- 5 Tawḥīd, God, the Qur'ān, and Being
- 6. Al-Quddūs and Divine Otherness
- 7. Tawḥīdic Discourses and the Inversion of al-Quddūs
- 8. The Qur'ān and the Sublimation of the Sunna
- 9. The Qur'ān, Muḥammad and the Disclosure of the Holy
- 10. The Qur'ān, the Sunna, and Authority in Modern Islam
- Part II. 11. Gender: The Tawḥīdic Sexual Morality
- 12. ḤILM: The Forgotten Ethics of Islam
- 13. The Qur'ān and Islamic Art
- 14. Ribā (Usury): Economic Excess and Excessive Morality.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 30, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Achrati, Ahmed. Anthropology of the Qur'an
- ISBN:
- 9781003200321
- 100320032X
- 9781000469066
- 1000469069
- 9781000469097
- 1000469093
- Publisher Number:
- 40030891700
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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