Theorizing Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theorizing Islam write by Aaron W. Hughes. This book was released on 2014-09-11. Theorizing Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The scholarly study of Islam has become ever more insular and apologetic. Academic Islamic Studies has tried to maintain a focus on truth, authenticity, experience and meaning and has effectively avoided discussion of larger social, cultural and ideological issues. Many scholars of Islam have presented themselves to their colleagues, the media and the public as the interpreters of Islam and have done so with an interpretation which tends, almost universally, to the liberal and egalitarian. The ignorance and hostility which the Islamic faith has faced since 9/11 has partly necessitated the taking of such a position. But, as Theorizing Islam argues, the issue remains that only one interpretation of Islam is generally being presented and, as with any interpretation, this has its own assumptions. The aim of Theorizing Islam is to explore the potential for a fuller, more honest and more sophisticated approach to both theory and methodology in the academic study of Islam.
Theorizing Islam
Theorizing Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theorizing Islam write by Aaron W. Hughes. This book was released on 2014-09-11. Theorizing Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The scholarly study of Islam has become ever more insular and apologetic. Academic Islamic Studies has tried to maintain a focus on truth, authenticity, experience and meaning and has effectively avoided discussion of larger social, cultural and ideological issues. Many scholars of Islam have presented themselves to their colleagues, the media and the public as the interpreters of Islam and have done so with an interpretation which tends, almost universally, to the liberal and egalitarian. The ignorance and hostility which the Islamic faith has faced since 9/11 has partly necessitated the taking of such a position. But, as Theorizing Islam argues, the issue remains that only one interpretation of Islam is generally being presented and, as with any interpretation, this has its own assumptions. The aim of Theorizing Islam is to explore the potential for a fuller, more honest and more sophisticated approach to both theory and methodology in the academic study of Islam.
Mimetic Theory and Islam
Mimetic Theory and Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mimetic Theory and Islam write by Michael Kirwan. This book was released on 2019-05-07. Mimetic Theory and Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume explores the 'Mimetic Theory' of the cultural theorist René Girard and its applicability to Islamic thought and tradition. Authors critically examine Girard's assertion about the connection between group formation, religion, and 'scapegoating' violence. These insights, Girard maintained, have their source in biblical revelation. Are there parallels in other faith traditions, especially Islam? To this end, Muslim scholars and scholars of Mimetic Theory have examined the hypothesis of an 'Abrahamic Revolution.' This is the claim that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam each share in a spiritual and ethical historical 'breakthrough:' a move away from scapegoating violence, and towards a sense of justice for the innocent victim.
Evolution Theory and Islam
Evolution Theory and Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evolution Theory and Islam write by Noah Ha Mim Keller. This book was released on 1999. Evolution Theory and Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Islam and the Tyranny of Authenticity
Islam and the Tyranny of Authenticity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islam and the Tyranny of Authenticity write by Aaron W. Hughes. This book was released on 2015. Islam and the Tyranny of Authenticity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
