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What is Islam? : the importance of being Islamic / Shahab Ahmed.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: Princeton : Princeton university press, 2018.Description: xvii, 609 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780691192390
- 297 AHM
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Summary: A book guaranteed to spark discussion and deeply impact our understanding of Islam, What Is Islam? explores how Muslims have historically understood and lived by Islam, with its norms and truths that are simultaneously contradictory yet coherent.
Part One Questions What Is Islam?
Chapter 1 Six Questions about Islam
Part Two Conceptualizations
Chapter 2 Islam as Law, islams-not-Islam, Islamic and Islamicate, Religion and Culture, Culture and Civilization
Chapter 3 Religion and Secular, Sacred and Profane, Theocentric and Anthropocentric, Total Social Fact, Family Resemblance
Chapter 4 Culture, Meaning, Symbol System, Core and Nucleus, Whatever-Muslims-Say-It-Is, Discursive Tradition, Orthodoxy, Process
Part Three Re-Conceptualizations Chapter 5 Hermeneutical Engagement, Pre-Text, Text, and Con-Text, Meaning-Making for the Self, Spatiality of Revelation, Hierarchy, Exteriority-Interiority, Public and Private, Language and Vocabulary, Ambivalence and Ambiguity, Metaphor and Paradox
Chapter 6: Applications and Implications: Coherent Contradiction, Exploration, Diffusion, Form and Meaning, Modern
The Importance of Being Islamic
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Kalaignar Centenary Library Madurai | ENGLISH-REFERENCE BOOKS | நான்காம் தளம் / Fourth floor | 297 AHM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | 350320 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part One Questions What Is Islam?
Chapter 1 Six Questions about Islam
Part Two Conceptualizations
Chapter 2 Islam as Law, islams-not-Islam, Islamic and Islamicate, Religion and Culture, Culture and Civilization
Chapter 3 Religion and Secular, Sacred and Profane, Theocentric and Anthropocentric, Total Social Fact, Family Resemblance
Chapter 4 Culture, Meaning, Symbol System, Core and Nucleus, Whatever-Muslims-Say-It-Is, Discursive Tradition, Orthodoxy, Process
Part Three Re-Conceptualizations Chapter 5 Hermeneutical Engagement, Pre-Text, Text, and Con-Text, Meaning-Making for the Self, Spatiality of Revelation, Hierarchy, Exteriority-Interiority, Public and Private, Language and Vocabulary, Ambivalence and Ambiguity, Metaphor and Paradox
Chapter 6: Applications and Implications: Coherent Contradiction, Exploration, Diffusion, Form and Meaning, Modern
The Importance of Being Islamic
A book guaranteed to spark discussion and deeply impact our understanding of Islam, What Is Islam? explores how Muslims have historically understood and lived by Islam, with its norms and truths that are simultaneously contradictory yet coherent.