Neudr. dt. Lit.-Werke NF Defining Islamic Comparative Theology Idris Nassery, Zishan Ghaffar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nassery, Idris.

Contributor:

Nassery, Idris, editor.

Ghaffar, Zishan, editor.

Series:

Sufism Studies , 2943-2685 ; 1

Comparative Theology, Islam, and Society , 2942-7975 ; 1

Neudrucke deutscher Literaturwerke. N. F. , 0077-7668 ;

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 321 p.)

Place of Publication:

LaVergne : De Gruyter, 2026.

Berlin Boston De Gruyter, [2026]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Idris Nassery and Zishan Ghaffar , Paderborn University, Germany.

Summary:

Over the last decades, Comparative Theology has established itself in varying methodological ways while considering the reality and plurality of religions. Although Comparative Theology can be a confessional or a non-confessional endeavor, most protagonists and theorists have been Western Christians. This could lead to the conclusion that Comparative Theology is in fact a Christian undertaking and implicitly or explicitly bound to conceptions like Christology. Furthermore, it could be argued that there is a certain asymmetry of power in the discourse between religions when the parameters of Comparative Theology are defined mainly by Christian theologians. This volume aims to be the first step to programmatically and conceptionally explore the possibility of a genuinely Islamic Comparative Theology in a constructive endeavor. This endeavor should neither be misunderstood as an apologetic questioning of the status quo in Comparative Theology nor as a project that deconstructs Comparative Theology. Rather, by searching for new approaches from the Islamic traditions it opens up ways and forms of learning, hermeneutically complementary with prominent attitudes, methods in Comparative Theology.

Contents:

Frontmatter

VPreface

Contents

1Introduction: Defining Islamic Comparative Theology / Idris Nassery, Zishan Ghaffar

The Emerging Field of Islamic Comparative Theology / Klaus von Stosch

Comparative Theology: Islamic Perspective / Abdul Rahman Mustafa

Comparative Theology from an Islamic Perspective: A Case Study / Ufuk Topkara

Does a Dismissal of Truth Claims Help the Project of an Islamic Comparative Theology? / Langenfeld Aaron

Covenant Theology in the Qur'an-Challenges and Insights for Comparative Theology from a Muslim Perspective / Zishan Ghaffar

Islamic Comparative Theology from the Perspective of Qur'ānic Exegesis: Elements of a Christian Response to Prof. Ghaffar / Pim Valkenberg

Qurʾān-Based Hermeneutics of Non-Supersessionism / Vahid Mahdavi Mehr

Response to Vahid Mahdavi Mehr / Marianne Moyaert

Iǧtihād Beyond Boundaries: The Non-Muslim as Muǧtahid between Competence and Authority / Idris Nassery

Knowing God as One's Good Friend: Maṣlaḥa as a Foundation for an Islamic Humanistic Theology / Ahmad Atif Ahmad, Muhammad al-Sayyid al-Sayyad

Legal Codes, Commentaries and Fatwas/Responsa: The Function of Legal Genres in Islamic and Jewish Law / Arslan Hakkı

Empirical Impulses for Defining Islamic Comparative Theology / Fahimah Ulfat

From Another Point of View. Response to Some Empirical Impulses for Comparative Theology / Woppowa Jan

Diversity of Religions in Democratic Societies. Theological and Pedagogical Perspectives for Interreligion-Sensitive Education / Kamcili-Yildiz Naciye

Religious Diversity in Post-religious and Post-secular Societies. Theological and Pedagogical Perspectives for an Interreligious-Sensitive Education - Replica Monika Tautz / Tautz Monika

Islamic Comparative Theology and Gender: What Role Can the Feminist and Gender-Equitable Interpretation of Texts Play in Comparative Theology? / Dina El Omari

"And a Female is not the Same as a Male" (Q 3:36): Islamic Feminism and the Challenge of Female Agency in the Qurʾān / Saida Mirsadri

Gender in Context, Content, and Method: Transforming Islamic Comparative Theology / Jerusha Tanner Rhodes

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ISBN:

9783111435695