Reasoning with God : reclaiming Shari'ah in the modern age / Khaled Abou El Fadl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abou El Fadl, Khaled, 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Customs and practices.

Islam.

Islam--Rituals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (557 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span>In </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Reasoning with God</span><span> renowned Islamic scholar Khaled Abou El Fadl explores the role of Shari'ah</span><span style=""font-style:italic;""> </span><span>in today's world, for both Muslims and non-Muslims. After a prologue that explains Shari'ah in depth, Abou El Fadl wrestles with the moral trajectory of contemporary Islam and highlights the way Shari'ah can revitalize and reengage Islam today.</span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>

Contents:

Contents; Author's Note; Preface; Acknowledgments; An Introduction to Shari'ah; What Is Shari'ah?; What Is Islamic law?; The Difference between Islamic Law and Muslim Law; The Sources of Islamic Law; The Nature and Purpose of Islamic Law; The Difference between Shari'ah and Fiqh; The Sacred and Profane in Islamic Law; The Rights of God and the Rights of Humans; Modernity and the Deterioration of Islamic Law; Part I: The Islamic Dream and the Chaos of the Modern Condition; 1 Genesis: Negotiating the Muslim and the Islamic; Growing Up with the Islamic Dream

The Nightmare of 9/11 and Its AftermathWaking Up to the Truth; 2 Awakening: Reasonableness and Islam; The Plight of Modern Muslims; Islam as a Complete Way of Life and the Reality of Realization; The Modern Challenge of Islamicity; Reasonableness, Socialization, and Contemporary Islamic Law; Musings on the Absurd; 3 Crisis: Making Sense of Shari'ah Today; Practicing the Pedantic and the Politics of Affectation; Muslims in the West as a Microcosm; 4 Repose: The Islamic between Harmony and Dissonance; Affectation as Public Performance; Stereotyped Forms and the Practice of Islamic Law

Nature of Authority in Islamic Law and ChaosThe Music of Shari'ah, Silence of Tradition, and Dissonance of Modernity; The Dream Revisited; Part II: The Culture of Ugliness and the Plight of Modern Islam; 5 Faulty Paradigms in Constructing the Islamic; The Recurrence of the Ugly in Modern Islam; The Muslim Response and Western Vilifications; The Origins of Western Hate; The Clash of Civilizations Thesis as an Explanation; Clash of Civilizations and the Expression of Prejudice; The Banality of Ugliness and the Dialectics of Sin; Islam, Cruelty, and Modernity; 6 Beyond Islamophobia

The Jahiliyya of Modern IgnoranceThe Imperative of Empathetic Knowing; The Critical Imperative; Islamophobia and the Danger to the World; 7 God the Universal; Muslim Self-Criticism between Universalism and Exceptionalism; The Universality of Ugliness and Beauty; Universal Mercy and Extreme Acts of Ugliness; 8 What Really Went Wrong; Postcolonialism and the Rise of Modern Apologetics; Wahhabism: The Puritans of Islam; Muhammad bin 'Abd al-Wahhab: The Founder and His Thought; Why Did Wahhabism Survive and Spread?; The Salafis; 9 God, Shari'ah, and Beauty

Puritanical-Salafism, the Authoritarian Specter, and Social DeathClassical Music and the Qur'an; Submitting to Infinite Divinity; Part III: Reclaiming Shari'ah in the Modern Age; 10 Shari'ah as Reasoning with God; The Shari'ah Predicament; Shari'ah: Between Objectivity and Subjectivity; Do We Need Shari'ah?; Reasoning with God; Shari'ah and Virtue; Islamic Law and Reasonableness; 11 Beyond a Reasonable Shari'ah; Beyond Reasonableness: An Ethical Approach to Shari'ah; Godliness and Godlessness; Shari'ah and Seeking Godliness; 12 The Caliphate of Humanity

On Cursing the Devil and Other Memories

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7425-5233-0

1-4422-3844-5