Innovation in Islam
Subtitle: traditions and contributions
By: edited by Mehran Kamrava
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780520266940; 9780520266957
Subjects: Islamic renewal; Islamic fundamentalism; Islam
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contextualizing innovation in Islam / Mehran Kamrava; title: Knowledge and hermeneutics in Islam today : which reform? / Tariq Ramadan; title: Deconstructing epistēmē(s) / Mohammed Arkoun; title: Iranian Shi'ism at the gates of historic change / Mehran Kamrava; title: History from below, dictionary from below / Nelly Hanna; title: The translation of the Qur'an : an impossible task, the classical linguistic-theological roots of the debate / Nasr Abu-Zayd; title: Toward a new understanding of renewal in Islam / Adonis; title: Creation, originality, and innovation in Sufi poetry / Patrick Laude; title: Innovation in the visual arts of Islam / Walter B. Denny; title: Liberal/progressive, modern, and modernized Islam : Muslim Americans and the American state; title: Sherman A. Jackson; title: Hijab and choice : between politics and theology / Ziba Mir-Hosseini; title: Modern movements in Islam / John O. Voll.