Metaphysical Institutions : Islam and the Modern Project / Caner K. Dagli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dagli, Caner K., author.

Series:

SUNY series in Islam.

SUNY Series in Islam Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--21st century.

Islam.

Metaphysics.

Civilization, Modern.

Islamic countries--Civilization.

Islamic countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2024]

Summary:

Uses the intellectual encounter between Islam and modernity to explore the nature of culture, civilization, religion, and tradition.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

Introduction

Part I: Institutions

Chapter 1 What Kind of Thing Is Islam?

Logical Dimensions

Institutions

Metaphysical and Ultimate

Definitional Shortcomings

Synopsis

Chapter 2 The Nature of Institutions and Shared Thinking

Section 1: Necessary and Universal Parameters

Shared Accounts, Shared Heuristics, Shared Norms: The Content of Shared Thinking

Terrain, Route, Destination: The Journey Metaphor

Section 2: Empirical Variation

The Example of Modern Medicine

Section 3: The Outside of Institutions

Identity, Routine, Heirlooms

Ossification, Plasticity, Interests

Assertions, Reflexes, Demands

Community versus Identity

Practice versus Routine

Legacy versus Heirloom

Stability versus Ossification

Dynamism versus Plasticity

Purpose versus Interests

Accounts versus Assertions

Heuristics versus Reflexes

Norms versus Demands

Concluding Comments

Part II: Metaphysics

Chapter 3 The Metaphysics of Antidualism

Antidualism and the Soul

The Structure within and the Structure Between

The Transcendental Limit and the Impossible Scales

Chapter 4 The Metaphysics of Meaning

Determinism, Randomness, or Something Else

Accounts, Heuristics, Norms: Ambiguity and Context

Meaning Is Everywhere

Essences in Light of Stability, Dynamism, Purpose

Neither Dualism nor Antidualism: Community, Practice, Legacy

Chapter 5 The Metaphysics of Paradox

What Thinking Does versus What Thinking Is

Paradoxes

Figures of Speech

The Model of Physical Science

Part III: Islam and the Modern Project

Chapter 6 The Language Analogy

Conceptualizations "within" Languages: English as a Normative Attribute.

Conceptualization "between" Languages: English as a Thing

The Role of a Community's Authority

Living and Dead Languages

Hierarchy and Hierarchies in Moral Authority

Creativity and Correctness

Hierarchy and Hierarchies

Conceptualization as Input-Output Procedure

Chapter 7 Project and Tradition

A Muslim Is a Kind of Human Being

The Modern Trifurcation of Metaphysics

Islam and the Anonymous "We"

Maintaining the Universal/Particular Asymmetry

The Modern Project as Metainstitution

Is the Modern Project a Metalanguage?

Chapter 8 One Islam, Many Islams, or No Islam?

Marshall Hodgson and the Boundary between Islamic and Islamicate

Shahab Ahmed and Contradiction in Islam

Talal Asad and Islam as a Discursive Tradition

Islam Cannot Simply Be Whatever Muslims Do

Overlapping Hierarchies Again

Kevin Reinhart and Anti-Essentialism

Conclusion The Sighted Men and the Elephant

Tradition and Traditional

Where to Go from Here?

Three Heuristics

Notes

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438497020

1438497024