Critique of Religious Discourse / Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abū Zayd, Naṣr Ḥāmid, author.

Contributor:

Kersten, Carool.

Wright, Jonathan.

Series:

World thought in translation.

World Thought in Translation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--20th century.

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages).

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

An important work of contemporary Islamic thought argues against the programmatic use of Islamic religious texts to support fundamentalist beliefs First published in Arabic in 1994, progressive Muslim scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd's controversial essay argued that conventional fundamentalist interpretations of the Quran and other Islamic religious texts are ahistorical and misleading. Conservative religious leaders accused him of apostasy. Marking the first time a work by Abu Zayd is available in its entirety in any Western language, this English edition makes his erudite interpretation of classical Islamic thought accessible to a wider audience at a critical historical moment.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd: An Introduction to His Life and Work

Critique of Religious Discourse

Introduction

1. Contemporary Religious Discourse: Its Strategies and Intellectual Premises

2. Tradition Interpreted or Colored: A Reading of the Project of the Islamic Left

3. Reading Religious Texts: An Exploratory Study of Types of Meaning

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

0-300-23145-8

OCLC:

1017098796