Self and secrecy in early Islam
By: Ruqayya Yasmine Khan.
Series: Studies in comparative religion
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781570037542
Subjects: Koran -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Islamic literature, Arabic -- History and criticism; Secrecy in literature; Self in literature
Description: xii, 186 pages ; 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Self and secrecy in the Quran; title: Sharing and withholding secrets: God, faith, and worship in the Quran; title: Self as cipher in Kitab kitmān al-sirr (Book of concealing the secret); title: The rhetoric of the secret: love, sexuality, and the body; title: Toward a literary archaeology of the private and the secret; title: Conclusion.