Rethinking Islamic studies : from orientalism to cosmopolitanism /

Rethinking Islamic studies : from orientalism to cosmopolitanism / edited by Carl W. Ernst and Richard C. Martin. - Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, (c)2010. - 1 online resource (344 pages). - Studies in comparative religion. .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: Toward a post-orientalist Islamic approach to Islamic religious studies / Rethinking modernity: Islamic perspectives: Reasons public and divine: liberal democracy, shari.Aa 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 -- A. Kevin Reinhart -- Can we define "true" Islam? African American Muslim women respond to transnational Muslim identities / 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" / 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.Aa in the hermeneutics of Qari Muhammad Tayyab (d. 1983) / Afterword: competing genealogies of Muslim cosmopolitanism / Carl W. Ernst and Richard C. Martin -- Vincent J. Cornell -- Katherine Pratt Ewing -- Omid Safi -- Jamillah Karim -- Charles Kurzman and Ijlal Naqvi -- David Gilmartin -- Richard C. Martin and Abbas Barzegar -- Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. -- Tony K. Stewart -- Scott Kugle -- Carl W. Ernst -- Ebrahim Moosa -- Bruce B. Lawrence.

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



9781611172317




Orientalism.
Islam--Study and teaching.


Electronic Books.

BP42 / .R484 2010