Rethinking Islamic studies
Subtitle: from orientalism to cosmopolitanism
By: edited by Carl W. Ernst and Richard C. Martin.
Contributors: Ernst, Carl W., 1950-; Martin, Richard C.
Series: Studies in comparative religion
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9781570038921; 9781570038938
Subjects: Islam -- Study and teaching; Orientalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Toward a post-orientalist Islamic approach to Islamic religious studies / Carl W. Ernst and Richard C. Martin; title: Rethinking modernity: Islamic perspectives: Reasons public and divine: liberal democracy, shariʻa fundamentalism, and the epistemological crisis of Islam / Vincent J. Cornell; title: The misrecognition of a modern Islamist organization: Germany faces "fundamentalism" / Katherine Pratt Ewing; title: Between "ijtihad of the presupposition" and gender equality: cross-pollination between progressive Islam and Iranian reform / Omid Safi; title: Fundamentalism and the transparency of the Arabic Qur'an; title: A. Kevin Reinhart; title: Can we define "true" Islam? African American Muslim women respond to transnational Muslim identities / Jamillah Karim; title: Rethinking religion: social scientific and humanistic perspectives: Who are the Islamists? / Charles Kurzman and Ijlal Naqvi; title: Sufism, exemplary lives, and social science in Pakistan / David Gilmartin; title: Formations of orthodoxy: authority, power, and networks in Muslim societies / Richard C. Martin and Abbas Barzegar; title: Caught between enlightenment and romanticism: on the complex relation of religious, ethnic, and civic identity in a modern "museum culture" / Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr.; title: Rethinking the subject: Asian perspectives: The subject and the ostensible subject: mapping the genre of hagiography among South Asian Chishtis / Tony K. Stewart; title: Dancing with khusro: gender ambiguities and poetic performance in a Delhi dargah / Scott Kugle; title: The perils of civilizational Islam in Malaysia / Carl W. Ernst; title: History and normativity in traditional Indian Muslim thought: reading shariʻa in the hermeneutics of Qari Muhammad Tayyab (d. 1983) / Ebrahim Moosa; title: Afterword: competing genealogies of Muslim cosmopolitanism / Bruce B. Lawrence.