What is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic 9780691178318, 0691178313

"What is Islam? How do we grasp a human and historical phenomenon characterized by such variety and contradiction?

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English Pages xvii, 609 pages illustrations ; 24 cm Year 2017;2015

What is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic
9780691178318, 0691178313

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Ahmed
Shahab

Table of contents :
Part One. Questions. What is Islam?
Chapter 1. Six Questions about Islam --
Part Two. Conceptualizations. Chapter 2. Islam as Law, islams-not-Islam, Islamic and Islamicate, Religion and Culture, Culture and Civilization
Chapter 3. Religion and Secular, Sacred and Profane, Theocentric and Anthropocentric, Total Social Fact, Family Resemblance
Chapter 4. Culture, Meaning, Symbol System, Core and Nucleus, Whatever-Muslims-Say-It-Is, Discursive Tradition, Orthodoxy, Process --
Part Three. Re-Conceptualizations. Chapter 5. Hermeneutical Engagement, Pre-Text, Text, and Con-Text, Meaning-Making for the Self, Spatiality of Revelation, Hierarchy, Exteriority-Interiority, Public and Private, Language and Vocabulary, Ambivalence and Ambiguity, Metaphor and Paradox
Chapter 6. Applications and Implications : Coherent Contradiction, Exploration, Diffusion, Form and Meaning, Modern
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