Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- An Introduction to His Life and Work -- Critique of Religious Discourse -- Introduction -- 1. Contemporary Religious Discourse: Its Strategies and Intellectual Premises -- First: The Strategies Used in the Discourse -- Conflating Ideas and Religion -- Explaining All Phenomena by Reference to One Starting Point -- Reliance on the Authority of Tradition and the Early Muslims -- Intellectual Dogmatism -- Dismissing the Historical Dimension -- Second: The Intellectual Premises -- Divine Sovereignty -- The Text and Nass -- 2. Tradition Interpreted or Colored: A Reading of the Project of the Islamic Left -- Interpretation: The Linguistic Sense and the Technical Sense -- Coloring: A Tendentious Reading -- Productive Readings -- The Islamic Left and the Priorities of Religious Discourse -- The Past and the Present: The Root and the Branch -- Tradition: A Construct of Consciousness or a Historical Construct -- Tradition: Rebuilding or a Fresh Coat of Paint -- The Texts: Interpretation or Coloring -- Syncretism: Success and Failure -- 3. Reading Religious Texts: An Exploratory Study of Types of Meaning -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Critique of religious discourse.
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Shāfiʻī, Muḥammad ibn Idrīs,767 or 768-820-- Criticism and interpretation.