Contemporary Issues in Islam

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

This book deals with certain "hot-button" contemporary issues in Islam that are often the focus of public scrutiny, including the Sharia, jihad, the caliphate, women’s status, and interfaith relations. Notably, it places the discussion of these topics within a longer historical framework in order to reveal their multiple interpretations and contested applications over time.Most public and some academic discourses however present the Islamic tradition as unchanging and therefore unable to respond to the modern world. Such an ahistorical approach fosters the belief that Muslim and Western societies are destined to clash with one another. In contrast, this book allows the reader to see the diversity and transformations within Islamic thought over time. Focusing on this internal diversity permits us to appreciate the scriptural and intellectual resources available within the Islamic tradition for responding to the challenges of modernity, even as it interrogates and shapes modernity itself.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-08-18
Mått:155 x 231 x 15 mm
Vikt:318 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9780748632770
Utmärkelser:Commended for British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize 2016

Utforska kategorier

Islam inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Asma Afsaruddin is Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author and/or editor of seven books, including Striving in the Path of God: Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought (2013) and The First Muslims: History and Memory (2008). She was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2005.

Recensioner i media

This long after 9/11, Western public discourse about Islam appears to be getting (if possible) even less subtle and nuanced than ever before. Complex questions about context, power and history are increasingly shunned in favour of simpler and simpler questions about Islam’s timeless essence. Asma Afsaruddin reminds us in this learned and timely book that only a longer historical view allows us to better understand the complexities of the public expression of Islam in modern conditions that have been both imposed on Muslims from without and developed by them from within.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Negotiating the Shoals of Modernity; 2. Engaging the Sharia: Re-reading the Qur’an and Hadith; 3. Islam and Politics; 4. Islam, Gender, and Feminist Hermeneutics; 5. War and Peacemaking in the Islamic Tradition; 6. American Muslims and the Expansion of the Umma; 7. Religious Dialogue and Inter-Faith Relations; Epilogue: Looking to the Future; Bibliography.