Rethinking Islamic Studies : From Orientalism to Cosmopolitanism.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (344 pages)
- Studies in Comparative Religion Series .
- Studies in Comparative Religion Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Toward a Post-Orientalist Approach to Islamic Religious Studies -- PART 1 Rethinking Modernity Islamic Perspectives -- Reasons Public and Divine: Liberal Democracy, Shari'a Fundamentalism, and the Epistemological Crisis of Islam -- The Misrecognition of a Modern Islamist Organization: Germany Faces "Fundamentalism" -- Between "Ijtihad of the Presupposition" and Gender Equality: Cross-Pollination between Progressive Islam and Iranian Reform -- Fundamentalism and the Transparency of the Arabic Qur'an -- Can We Define "True" Islam? African American Muslim Women Respond to Transnational Muslim Identities -- PART 2 Rethinking Religion Social Scientific and Humanistic Perspectives -- Who Are the Islamists? -- Sufism, Exemplary Lives, and Social Science in Pakistan -- Formations of Orthodoxy: Authority, Power, and Networks in Muslim Societies -- Caught between Enlightenment and Romanticism: On the Complex Relation of Religious, Ethnic, and Civic Identity in a Modern "Museum Culture" -- PART 3 Rethinking the Subject Asian Perspectives -- The Subject and the Ostensible Subject: Mapping the Genre of Hagiography among South Asian Chishtis -- Dancing with Khusro: Gender Ambiguities and Poetic Performance in a Delhi Dargah -- The Perils of Civilizational Islam in Malaysia -- History and Normativity in Traditional Indian Muslim Thought: Reading Shari'a in the Hermeneutics of Qari Muhammad Tayyab (d. 1983) -- Afterword: Competing Genealogies of Muslim Cosmopolitanism -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Rethinking Islamic Studies offers original perspectives for the discipline, each utilizing the tools of modern academic inquiry, to help illuminate contemporary incarnations of Islam for a growing audience of those invested in a sharper understanding of the Muslim world.