What is Islam?
Subtitle: the importance of being Islamic
By: Shahab Ahmed
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 609
ISBN-13: 9780691164182
Subjects: Anthropology; Islamic sociology; Methodology; Islam
Description: "A book that is certain to provoke debate and significantly alter our understanding of Islam, [this work] reveals how Muslims have historically conceived of and lived with Islam as norms and truths that are at once contradictory yet coherent"--Front jacket flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 547-591) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one.; title: Questions.; title: What is Islam? ; -- Chapter 1.; title: Six questions about Islam -- -- Part two.; title: Conceptualizations. -- Chapter 2.; title: Islam as law, islams-not-Islam, Islamic and Islamicate, religion and culture, culture and civilization ; -- Chapter 3.; title: Religion and secular, sacred and profane, theocentric and anthropocentric, total social fact, family resemblance ; -- Chapter 4.; title: Culture, meaning, symbol system, core and nucleus, whatever-Muslims-say-it-is, discursive tradition, orthodoxy, process -- -- Part three.; title: Re-conceptualizations. -- Chapter 5.; title: 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.; title: Applications and implications : coherent contradiction, exploration, diffusion, form and meaning, modern ;; title: The importance of being Islamic.