Islamic studies in the twenty-first century : transformations and continuities
\ Edited By Leon Buskens, Annemarie Van Sandwijk
Amsterdam
: Amsterdam University Press
, [2016]
284p.
: ill.
Index
Introduction: Dichotomies, transformations, and continuities in the study of Islam / Leon Buskens -- Islamic texts : the anthropologist as reader / Brinkley Messick -- Textual aspects of religious authority in premodern Islam / Jonathan P. Berkey -- What to do with ritual texts : Islamic Fiqh texts and the study of Islamic ritual / A. Kevin Reinhart -- Textual study of gender / Marion Katz -- E. Schulz -- Power, orthodoxy, and salvation in classical Islamic theology / Christian Lange -- Dialectical theology in the search for modern Islam / Abdulkader Tayob -- "Classical" Islamic legal theory as ideology : Nasr Abu Zayd's study of al-Shafi'i's al-Risala / Muhammad Khalid Masud -- Islamic law in the modern world : Sufi networks, hospitality, and translocal inclusivity / Pnina Webner -- Middle eastern studies and Islam : oscillations and tensions in an old relationship / Leon Buskens.