Islam And The Tyranny Of Authenticity

Author : Aaron W. Hughes
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Islam
ISBN : 1781792178

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Islam and the Tyranny of Authenticity by Aaron W. Hughes Pdf

Many scholars of Islam are interested in creating a liberal, inclusive, pluralistic, feminist, and modern version of the religion that they believe to be explicit in the pages of the Qur'ān, but missed by earlier interpreters. In so doing, they create "good" Islam and, in the process, seek to define what does and does not get to count as authentic. As the purveyors of what they now believe to be veritable Islam, they subsequently claim that rival presentations are bastardizations based either on Orientalism and Islamophobia (if one is a non-Muslim) or misogyny and homophobia (if one is a Muslim that disagrees with them). Instead of engaging in critical scholarship, they engage in a constructive and theological project that they deceive themselves into thinking is both analytical and empirical. This book provides a hard-hitting examination of the spiritual motivations, rhetorical moves, and political implications associated with these apologetical discourses. It argues that what is at stake is relevance, and examines the consequences of engaging in mythopoesis as opposed to scholarship.

Author : Robert D. Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429967078

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Overcoming Tradition And Modernity by Robert D. Lee Pdf

“Authenticity” has begun to rival “development” as a key to understanding the political aspirations of the Islamic world. Almost everywhere modernity has laid waste to tradition, those habits and practices deemed to be timeless and true. Imperialism carried European notions of progress into Muslim-dominated parts of the globe, and subsequently Muslims themselves espoused Western practices, techniques, and philosophies. Regimes calling themselves liberal, socialist, and Arab nationalist all embraced modernity as their principal objective. Most of these regimes failed to create the promised better lives their citizens desired. Moreover, ordinary Muslims felt despair as modernity ripped apart families, exposed youngsters to the materialism and hedonism of Western entertainments, heightened social expectations, and undermined religious belief. Even though tradition has proved itself incapable of staving off modernity, the promises and premises of modern development literature have been called into question. Where is the truth around which Muslims can rally? Does modernity require a rejection of tradition? Does the embrace of Islamic ideas necessitate turning away from modernity? Robert D. Lee explores these compelling questions by presenting four contemporary Muslim writers—Muhammad Iqbal, Sayyid Qutb, ‘Ali Shari’ati, and Mohammed Arkoun—all of whom have refused to bow to such a dichotomy of modernity and tradition. This study examines their efforts, deeply influenced by European thinking, to find a truth beyond tradition and modernity—an “authentic” understanding of Islam upon which Muslims can build a future. All four thinkers believe such an authentic understanding can serve as the foundation for a new politics. Lee argues, however, that each of these versions of authenticity suffers shortcomings and falters in its efforts to move from the particularity of culture onto a grander scale of political organization appropriate for the modern world.

Author : Jamal Khwaja
Publisher : South Asia Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015014615341

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Authenticity and Islamic Liberalism by Jamal Khwaja Pdf

With special reference to India.

Author : S. M. A. Sayeed
Publisher : Royal Publishing Company
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Islam
ISBN : UOM:39015024940481

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The Myth of Authenticity by S. M. A. Sayeed Pdf

Author : Sherman A. Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780197661789

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The Islamic Secular by Sherman A. Jackson Pdf

This book argues that the meaning of "secular" in the West and in Islam differ fundamentally. Though the Islamic secular is a "liberation" from Islam's sacred law, shari'ah, it is neither outside "religion" nor a rival to it; it seeks neither to discipline nor displace religion nor expand its own jurisdiction at religion's expense. The Islamic Secular is, in Sherman Jackson's view, a complement to religion-in effect, a "religious secular." In this book, Jackson makes the case for the Islamic Secular on the basis of Islam's own pre-modern juristic tradition and shows how the Islamic Secular impacts the relationship between Islam and the modern state, including the Islamic State.

Author : Megan Brankley Abbas
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503627949

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Whose Islam? by Megan Brankley Abbas Pdf

In this incisive new book, Megan Brankley Abbas argues that the Western university has emerged as a significant space for producing Islamic knowledge and Muslim religious authority. For generations, Indonesia's foremost Muslim leaders received their educations in Middle Eastern madrasas or the archipelago's own Islamic schools. Starting in the mid-twentieth century, however, growing numbers traveled to the West to study Islam before returning home to assume positions of political and religious influence. Whose Islam? examines the far-reaching repercussions of this change for major Muslim communities as well as for Islamic studies as an academic discipline. As Abbas details, this entanglement between Western academia and Indonesian Islam has not only forged powerful new transnational networks but also disrupted prevailing modes of authority in both spheres. For Muslim intellectuals, studying Islam in Western universities provides opportunities to experiment with academic disciplines and to reimagine the faith, but it also raises troubling questions about whether and how to protect the Islamic tradition from Western encroachment. For Western academics, these connections raise pressing ethical questions about their own roles in the global politics of development and Islamic religious reform. Drawing on extensive archival research from around the globe, Whose Islam? provides a unique perspective on the perennial tensions between insiders and outsiders in religious studies.

Author : Jamal Khwaja
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1935293680

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Authenticity And Islamic Liberalism by Jamal Khwaja Pdf

A collection of four original and highly stimulating papers on the liberal existentialist approach to religion with special reference to Islam in India

Author : Amélie Barras,Jennifer A. Selby,Melanie Adrian
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-10
Category : Canada
ISBN : 9781487527884

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Producing Islams(s) in Canada by Amélie Barras,Jennifer A. Selby,Melanie Adrian Pdf

During the last twenty years, public interest in Islam and how Muslims express their religious identity in Western societies has grown exponentially. In parallel, the study of Islam in the Canadian academy has grown in a number of fields since the 1970s, reflecting a diverse range of scholarship, positionalities, and politics. Yet, academic research on Muslims in Canada has not been systematically assessed. In Producing Islam(s) in Canada, scholars from a wide range of disciplines come together to explore what is at stake regarding portrayals of Islam(s) and Muslims in academic scholarship. Given the centrality of representations of Canadian Muslims in current public policy and public imaginaries, which effects how all Canadians experience religious diversity, this analysis of knowledge production comes at a crucial time.

Author : Shoaib Ahmed Malik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000405255

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Islam and Evolution by Shoaib Ahmed Malik Pdf

This book attempts to equip the reader with a holistic and accessible account of Islam and evolution. It guides the reader through the different variables that have played a part in the ongoing dialogue between Muslim creationists and evolutionists. This work views the discussion through the lens of al-Ghazālī (1058-1111), a widely-known and well-respected Islamic intellectual from the medieval period. By understanding al-Ghazālī as an Ash’arite theologian, a particular strand of Sunni theology, his metaphysical and hermeneutic ideas are taken to explore if and how much Neo-Darwinian evolution can be accepted. It is shown that his ideas can be used to reach an alignment between Islam and Neo-Darwinian evolution. This book offers a detailed examination that seeks to offer clarity if not agreement in the midst of an intense intellectual conflict and polarity amongst Muslims. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars of Science and Religion, Theology, Philosophy of Religion, Islamic Studies, and Religious Studies more generally. *Winner of the International Society for Science & Religion (ISSR) book prize 2022 (academic category)*

Author : Kristian Petersen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190634346

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Interpreting Islam in China by Kristian Petersen Pdf

This book explores the Han Kitab, a corpus of early modern Chinese language Islamic texts that reinterpreted Islam through the lens of Buddhist, Daoist, and Confucian terminology.

Author : Alison Scott-Baumann,Mathew Guest,Shuruq Naguib,Aisha Phoenix
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198846789

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Islam on Campus by Alison Scott-Baumann,Mathew Guest,Shuruq Naguib,Aisha Phoenix Pdf

This innovative study uses rich new evidence from the UK to explore university life and examine how ideas about Islam and Muslim identities are produced on campus.

Author : Ramon Harvey,Daniel Tutt
Publisher : International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781642056587

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Justice in Islam by Ramon Harvey,Daniel Tutt Pdf

From its roots in the Qur’an and the life of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) to its branches in contemporary political and social movements, Islam has always been concerned with the question of social justice. The promise of a just order on earth has motivated both the reflections of the community of scholars and the actions of Muslims who have striven to realize it within their societies. Despite the disappointments that history has often delivered, the hope for justice remains undimmed as does the struggle to achieve it today. This concise volume focuses on some of the ways that the theme of justice is explored in emerging currents of Islamic thought. Chapters discuss new theological and ethical proposals in the light of contemporary philosophical developments; ideas of gender justice that provoke a reformist challenge to the received tradition; and regional contexts, such as Turkey, Iran and Japan, in which the question of Islam’s relationship to justice is sharpened by the particularities of history and locale. The contributions to this collection raise the prospect that if justice can be imagined more perfectly as an Islamic ideal, perhaps it can be brought into reality.

Author : Henning Wrogemann
Publisher : Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783374076277

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The Call to Islam (daʻwa islamiyya) by Henning Wrogemann Pdf

Today Islam is numerically the second largest religion in the world. Its message is aimed generally at all people and has been addressed to Muslims and non-Muslims alike since the beginning of Islam through the »Call to Islam« (Arabic daʻwa islamiyya). But what exactly does »Call to Islam« mean? After a brief historical sketch of different forms of daʻwa, this book provides an overview of various daʻwa theologies of the 20th and 21st centuries as well as of some daʻwa organizations and different daʻwa approaches. Finally, the question is raised about the challenges that daʻwa activities of a conservative or an Islamist Islam pose for liberal and democratic societies.

Author : Mette Bjerregaard Mortensen,Guillaume Dye,Isaac W. Oliver,Tommaso Tesei
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110675566

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The Study of Islamic Origins by Mette Bjerregaard Mortensen,Guillaume Dye,Isaac W. Oliver,Tommaso Tesei Pdf

The study of Islam’s origins from a rigorous historical and social science perspective is still wanting. At the same time, a renewed attention is being paid to the very plausible pre-canonical redactional and editorial stages of the Qur'an, a book whose core many contemporary scholars agree to be formed by various independent writings in which encrypted passages from the OT Pseudepigrapha, the NT Apocrypha, and other ancient writings of Jewish, Christian, and Manichaean provenance may be found. Likewise, the earliest Islamic community is presently regarded by many scholars as a somewhat undetermined monotheistic group that evolved from an original Jewish-Christian milieu into a distinct Muslim group perhaps much later than commonly assumed and in a rather unclear way. The following volume gathers select studies that were originally shared at the Early Islamic Studies Seminar. These studies aim at exploring afresh the dawn and early history of Islam with the tools of biblical criticism as well as the approaches set forth in the study of Second Temple Judaism, Christian, and Rabbinic origins, thereby contributing to the renewed, interdisciplinary study of formative Islam as part and parcel of the complex processes of religious identity formation during Late Antiquity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004536630

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New Methodological Perspectives in Islamic Studies by Anonim Pdf

This volume draws attention to and moves beyond the traditional methodological frames that have governed knowledge production in the academic study of Islam. Departing from Orientalist and largely textual studies, the chapters collected herein revolve around three main themes: gender, the political, and what has come to be known as "lived Islam." The first involves ascertaining how to read gender and gender issues into traditional sources. The second encourages an attunement to the often delicate intersection between the spheres of religion and politics. The final provides a corrective to our traditional over-emphasis on the interpretation of texts and a preoccupation with studying (mainly male) elites. Taken as a whole, this volume encourages a multi-methodological approach to the study of Islam. Contributors include Abbas Aghdassi, Aaron W. Hughes, Eva Kepplinger, Taira Amin, Betül Avcı, Ali Abedi Renani and Seyyed Ebrahim Sarparast Sadat, Meral Durmuş and Bahattin Akşit, Walid Ghali, Isabella Crespi and Martina Crescenti, Brian Arly Jacobsen, Pernille Friis Jensen, Kirstine Sinclair, and Niels Valdemar Vinding, Magdalena Pycińska, Zahraa McDonald, Emin Poljarevic, Abdessamad Belhaj.