Modern Muslim Theology

• Utgivningsdatum: 2018-08-10
• Mått: 158 x 237 x 22 mm
• Vikt: 467 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: Religion in the Modern World
• Antal sidor: 224
• Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• ISBN: 9781538114995

• Islam
• Religion: allmänt
• Mellanösterns historia

Martin Nguyen is associate professor of Islamic religious traditions at Fairfield University, where he is also the faculty chair for diversity. He is the author of the book Sufi Master and Qur’an Scholar.

Muslim theology has traditionally been understood as involving doctrines and beliefs, as emphasizing the conceptual and cognitive aspects of the faith. Nguyen (Fairfield Univ.) considers Muslim theology in a different way. He understands it as encompassing all aspects of a believer’s life—the intellectual, emotional, physical, and spiritual elements. He believes Muslim theology should lead people to see their lives as an ongoing response to God involving active engagement with others and society. Nguyen looks at prayer, the Koran, imagination, creativity, Muslim tradition, prostration before God, righteousness in words and actions, and protest. He intends this book for both laypersons and scholars, since he believes that theology should address all believers and not just a small, elite segment of them. Nguyen's fresh approach makes Islam relevant to the present time, in which people are influenced by postmodernism and need to see faith in action and not simply through its doctrines and ideas. Nguyen likely will encounter resistance and criticism from other Muslim scholars, but his creative vision for theology may well have significant influence.Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.

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