Diversity and Pluralism in Islam : Historical and Contemporary Discourses Amongst Muslims / edited by Zulfikar Hirji.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hirji, Zulfikar A. (Zulfikar Amir), 1965- editor.

Institute of Ismaili Studies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious pluralism--Islam.

Religious pluralism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Islamic Publications Ltd. For more than fourteen hundred years Muslims have held multiple and diverging views about their religious tradition. This divergence encompasses such matters as authority; ritual practice; political power; law and governance; civic life; and the form and content of individual and communal expressions of their faith. Over the centuries Muslims have regularly debated these issues amongst themselves. However, despite the remarkable diversity of the Islamic tradition, and the plurality of understandings about Islam, Muslims are regularly and erroneously portrayed as internally homogeneous and dogmatic. This important book challenges such propositions by examining the ways in which matters of common concern to Muslims have been discussed by them and examined. The volume explores the processes by which Muslims construct notions of the self, the other and community, and addresses the socio-cultural tools that they employ in so doing. Offering contributions by world-class scholars, "Diversity and Pluralism in Islam" applies insights from a range of disciplines, including anthropology, history, literature, political theory, comparative literature and Islamic studies. It will be of extensive interest to scholars and students in these fields, as well as to all those with a serious interest in Muslim societies and cultures.

Contents:

Editor's Note 1. Debating Islam from Within: Muslim Constructions of the Internal Other Zulfikar A. Hirji 2. Toward Pluralism: The Use and Reuse of the Seventy-Odd Divisions Roy Mottahedeh 3. Being One and Many among the Others: Muslim Diversity in the Context of South Asian Religious Pluralism Dominque-Sila Khan 4. Religious Pluralism in the Light of American Muslim Identities Patrice C. Brodeur 5. Islamic Art and Doctrinal Pluralism: Seeking Out the Visual Boundaries J. W. Allen 6. The Contestation and Resolution of Inter and Intra-School Conflicts through Biography R. Kevin Jaques 7. Tradition of Reform, Reformers of Tradition: Case Studies from Senegal and Zanzibar/Tanzania Roman Loimeier 8. Iranian Reformers: Multiple Voices and Models of Governance and Civil Society Farhang Jahanpour 9. Justifying Islamic (Legal) Pluralism: Reflections from Indonesia and France John R. Bowen About the Contributors Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-245) and index.

Creative Commons. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en

ISBN:

9786612881824

9780755655311

0755655311

9781282881822

1282881825

9781441676320

1441676325

9780857712165

0857712160

9786000043674

6000043678

OCLC:

710975699