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Defining Islam : A Reader.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Categories in the Study of Religion SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2014Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (403 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781134936274
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Defining IslamDDC classification:
  • 297
LOC classification:
  • BP165 -- .D445 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Sources -- Introduction -- PART I: THEOLOGY -- 1. The Epistle of Abu Hanifa to 'Uthman al-Batti -- 2. Ten Things That Nullify One's Islam -- 3. The Formation of Muslim Society and its Characteristics -- 4. The Spread of Islam -- PART II: SOCIAL SCIENCES -- 5. Between Text and Practice: Considerations in the Anthropological Study of Islam -- 6. The Study of Islam in Local Contexts -- 7. Beyond Ideology and Theology: The Search for the Anthropology of Islam -- 8. Two Countries, Two Cultures -- 9. Islamic Movements: One or Many? -- 10. Islam in Contemporary Southeast Asia: History, Community, Morality -- 11. Beyond Orientalism? Max Weber and the Displacements of "Essentialism" in the Study of Islam -- PART III: RELIGION -- 12. The Muslim East as It Presents Itself -- 13. The Special Case of Islam -- 14. Religion is a Different Matter -- 15. Official, Popular, and Normative Religion in Islam -- 16. The Limits of Islamic Orthodoxy -- 17. Defining Islam in the Throes of Modernity -- 18. Islam, Europe, the West: Meanings-at-Stake and the Will-to-Power -- PART IV: CIVILIZATION -- 19. The Problem: Unity in Diversity -- 20. The Dialectic of a Cultural Tradition -- 21. Conscience in the Construction of Religion: A Critique of Marshall G. S. Hodgson's The Venture of Islam -- 22. Conversion as a Social Process -- PART V: THE MEDIA -- 23. Islam and the West -- 24. Islam and the Western Journalist -- Glossary -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subjects.
Summary: Ever since a group of people came into existence who called themselves Muslims, questions of what it meant to be a member of that group and what the requirements for membership were, have proven to be divisive for the community itself. This book aims to present source material and reflections on how the word "Islam" is to be used and understood.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Sources -- Introduction -- PART I: THEOLOGY -- 1. The Epistle of Abu Hanifa to 'Uthman al-Batti -- 2. Ten Things That Nullify One's Islam -- 3. The Formation of Muslim Society and its Characteristics -- 4. The Spread of Islam -- PART II: SOCIAL SCIENCES -- 5. Between Text and Practice: Considerations in the Anthropological Study of Islam -- 6. The Study of Islam in Local Contexts -- 7. Beyond Ideology and Theology: The Search for the Anthropology of Islam -- 8. Two Countries, Two Cultures -- 9. Islamic Movements: One or Many? -- 10. Islam in Contemporary Southeast Asia: History, Community, Morality -- 11. Beyond Orientalism? Max Weber and the Displacements of "Essentialism" in the Study of Islam -- PART III: RELIGION -- 12. The Muslim East as It Presents Itself -- 13. The Special Case of Islam -- 14. Religion is a Different Matter -- 15. Official, Popular, and Normative Religion in Islam -- 16. The Limits of Islamic Orthodoxy -- 17. Defining Islam in the Throes of Modernity -- 18. Islam, Europe, the West: Meanings-at-Stake and the Will-to-Power -- PART IV: CIVILIZATION -- 19. The Problem: Unity in Diversity -- 20. The Dialectic of a Cultural Tradition -- 21. Conscience in the Construction of Religion: A Critique of Marshall G. S. Hodgson's The Venture of Islam -- 22. Conversion as a Social Process -- PART V: THE MEDIA -- 23. Islam and the West -- 24. Islam and the Western Journalist -- Glossary -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subjects.

Ever since a group of people came into existence who called themselves Muslims, questions of what it meant to be a member of that group and what the requirements for membership were, have proven to be divisive for the community itself. This book aims to present source material and reflections on how the word "Islam" is to be used and understood.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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