Ahmed, Shahab <br/><br/>
What is Islam? :  the importance of being Islamic / 
Shahab Ahmed. 
 - Princeton :  Princeton university press,  2018. 
 - xvii, 609 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Part One Questions What Is Islam?<br/>Chapter 1 Six Questions about Islam<br/>Part Two Conceptualizations <br/>Chapter 2 Islam as Law, islams-not-Islam, Islamic and Islamicate, Religion and Culture, Culture and Civilization <br/>Chapter 3 Religion and Secular, Sacred and Profane, Theocentric and Anthropocentric, Total Social Fact, Family Resemblance<br/>Chapter 4 Culture, Meaning, Symbol System, Core and Nucleus, Whatever-Muslims-Say-It-Is, Discursive Tradition, Orthodoxy, Process<br/>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<br/>Chapter 6: Applications and Implications: Coherent Contradiction, Exploration, Diffusion, Form and Meaning, Modern<br/>The Importance of Being Islamic 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780691192390 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Religion.<br/>Islam.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>297  / AHM