Defining Islam A Reader

Name: Defining Islam A Reader
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ISBN: 9781845530600

ISBN-10: 1845530608

ISBN-13: 9781845530600

Edition: 2007

Authors: Andrew Rippin

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Defining Islam: A Reader aims to present original source material and scholarly reflections on how the word Islam is to be used and understood. 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, who was to be included and who excluded, and what the requirements for membership were, have proven to be both divisive and defining for the community itself. Likewise for scholars, the issue of what constitutes Islam when they talk about the emergence of the religion or when they compare local traditions or when the media debates whether the phrase Muslim terrorist is meaningful or appropriate, is always a central…

Book details

Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/15/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 402
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.562
Language: English

Andrew Rippin is Professor of History and former Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria, Canada. He specialises in Islamic Studies and has written and edited several books on Islam and the Qur'an, including Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of Religious Literature and The Islamic World (both published by Routledge).



Preface


Sources


Introduction



Theology



The Epistle of Abu Hanifa to 'Uthman al-Batti




Ten Things That Nullify One's Islam




The Formation of Muslim Society and its Characteristics




The Spread of Islam




Social Sciences



Between Text and Practice: Considerations in the Anthropological Study of Islam




The Study of Islam in Local Contexts




Beyond Ideology and Theology: The Search for the Anthropology of Islam




Two Countries, Two Cultures




Islamic Movements: One or Many?




Islam in Contemporary Southeast Asia: History, Community, Morality




Beyond Orientalism? Max Weber and the Displacements of "Essentialism" in the Study of Islam




Religion



The Muslim East as It Presents Itself




The Special Case of Islam




Religion is a Different Matter




Official, Popular, and Normative Religion in Islam




The Limits of Islamic Orthodoxy




Defining Islam in the Throes of Modernity




Islam, Europe, the West: Meanings-at-Stake and the Will-to-Power




Civilization



The Problem: Unity in Diversity




The Dialectic of a Cultural Tradition




Conscience in the Construction of Religion: A Critique of Marshall G. S. Hodgson's The Venture of Islam




Conversion as a Social Process




The Media



Islam and the West




Islam and the Western Journalist



Glossary


Index of Authors


Index of Subjects