The construction of belief : reflections on the thought of Mohammed Arkoun /
Filali-Ansary, Abdou.
Esmail, Aziz.
Aga Khan University.Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations.
London : Saqi ; The Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations,
2012.
This Festschrift honours Arkoun's scholarship, bringing together the contributions of eleven scholars of history, religious studies and philosophy. It offers a comprehensive selection of critical engagements with Arkoun's work, reflecting on his influence on contemporary thinking about Islam and its ideological, philosophical and theological dimensions.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Professor Mohammed Arkoun (1928-2010) -- Preface : situating Arkoun / Abdou Filali-Ansary -- Mohammed Arkoun : a personal tribute and an intellectual assessment / Aziz Esmail -- The authenticity of sacred texts / R. Stephen Humphreys -- Constructing Islam in the "classical" period : maqalat literature and the seventy-two sects / Josef van Ess -- Modern discourses of superiority : Muslims and Christians in contact / Stefan Wild -- The political, social and economic construction of understanding : an essay in analysis of the disruptive / Mark Sedgwick -- Believing and belonging : the impact of religion for "Muslim" adolescents in a pluralistic society : empirical findings from Hamburg, Germany / Ursula Günther -- Veiling and unveiling Muslim women : state coercion, Islam and the "disciplines of the heart" / Malika Zeghal -- Coming to believe : the (elusive) time of conversion / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- The shadow of terror on distant Muslims / Akeel Bilgrami -- Citational exegesis of the Qur'an : towards a theoretical framework for the construction of meaning in classical Islamic thought : the case of the Epistles of the pure brethren (Rasāʼil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ) / Omar Ali-de-Unzaga.
This Festschrift honours Arkoun's scholarship, bringing together the contributions of eleven scholars of history, religious studies and philosophy. It offers a comprehensive selection of critical engagements with Arkoun's work, reflecting on his influence on contemporary thinking about Islam and its ideological, philosophical and theological dimensions.
Arkoun, Mohammed
Islam and philosophy.
Islam
Islamic modernism.
East and West.