Muhammad 'Abduh and his interlocutors : conceptualizing religion in a globalizing world / by Ammeke Kateman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kateman, Ammeke, author.

Series:

Numen Book Series 162.

Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions, 0169-8834 ; volume 162

Standardized Title:

Shared questions, diverging answers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic philosophy.

Globalization--Religious aspects.

Globalization.

Muḥammad ʻAbduh, 1849-1905.

Muḥammad ʻAbduh.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

In Muḥammad ʿAbduh and his Interlocutors: Conceptualizing Religion in a Globalizing World , Ammeke Kateman offers an account of Muḥammad ʿAbduh’s Islamic Reformism in a context in which ideas increasingly crossed familiar geographical, religious and cultural frontiers. Presenting an alternative to the inadequate perspective of “Westernization”, Kateman situates the ideas of Muḥammad ʿAbduh (Egypt, 1849-1905) on Islam and religion amongst those of his interlocutors within a global intellectual field. Ammeke Kateman’s approach documents the surprising pluralism of ʿAbduh’s interlocutors, the diversity in their shared conceptualizations of religion and the creativity of ʿAbduh’s own interpretation. In this way, the conceptualizations of ʿAbduh and his contemporaries also shed light on the diversified global genealogy of the modern concept of religion.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright Page

Acknowledgments

Note on Translation and Transliteration

Introduction 1

1 Muḥammad ʿAbduh’s World 9

2 Conceptualizing ‘Religion’ 46

3 Risālat al-Tawḥīd in Its Context of Conception: Beirut in the 1880s 69

4 Comparing Religions in Risālat al-Tawḥīd in the Context of Its Conception 97

5 Comparisons Compared: Reflecting and Producing a Concept of ‘Religion’ 127

6 Hanotaux and ʿAbduh: A Layered Context of Discussion 163

7 Comparing Islam and Christianity in Reply to Hanotaux 186

8 Comparisons Compared: A Play of Similarity and Difference 217

In Conclusion 239

Back Matter

Sources and Literature

Index.

Notes:

Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2016, titled Shared questions, diverging answers : Muḥammad ʻAbduh and his interlocutors on 'religion' in a globalizing world.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-39838-4

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004398382 DOI