Rethinking Islamic studies : from orientalism to cosmopolitanism /

A groundbreaking response to the challenges of interpreting Islamic religion in the post-9/11 and post-Orientalist era.

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Other Authors: Martin, Richard C. (Editor), Ernst, Carl W., 1950- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 2010.
Series:Studies in comparative religion.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Toward a post-orientalist Islamic approach to Islamic religious studies / Carl W. Ernst and Richard C. Martin
  • Rethinking modernity: Islamic perspectives: Reasons public and divine: liberal democracy, shariʻa fundamentalism, and the epistemological crisis of Islam / Vincent J. Cornell
  • The misrecognition of a modern Islamist organization: Germany faces "fundamentalism" / Katherine Pratt Ewing
  • Between "ijtihad of the presupposition" and gender equality: cross-pollination between progressive Islam and Iranian reform / Omid Safi
  • Fundamentalism and the transparency of the Arabic Qur'an
  • A. Kevin Reinhart
  • Can we define "true" Islam? African American Muslim women respond to transnational Muslim identities / Jamillah Karim
  • Rethinking religion: social scientific and humanistic perspectives: Who are the Islamists? / Charles Kurzman and Ijlal Naqvi
  • Sufism, exemplary lives, and social science in Pakistan / David Gilmartin
  • Formations of orthodoxy: authority, power, and networks in Muslim societies / Richard C. Martin and Abbas Barzegar
  • Caught between enlightenment and romanticism: on the complex relation of religious, ethnic, and civic identity in a modern "museum culture" / Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr.
  • Rethinking the subject: Asian perspectives: The subject and the ostensible subject: mapping the genre of hagiography among South Asian Chishtis / Tony K. Stewart
  • Dancing with khusro: gender ambiguities and poetic performance in a Delhi dargah / Scott Kugle
  • The perils of civilizational Islam in Malaysia / Carl W. Ernst
  • History and normativity in traditional Indian Muslim thought: reading shariʻa in the hermeneutics of Qari Muhammad Tayyab (d. 1983) / Ebrahim Moosa
  • Afterword: competing genealogies of Muslim cosmopolitanism / Bruce B. Lawrence.