عنوان

Cosmopolitans and heretics

Qualification

(paperback)

(Number (ISBN

978-1-84904-129-4

System Control Number

(OCoLC)ocn693704789

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Cosmopolitans and heretics

General Material Designation

[book]

Other Title Information

new Muslim intellectuals and the study of Islam

First Statement of Responsibility

Carool Kersten.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

London

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

C. Hurst & Company

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2011.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xvi, 324 p.

Dimensions

22 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-306) and index.

Text of Note

Introduction: Writing an intellectual history of the contemporary Muslim world --- Refashioning the study of Islam and the Muslim world --- From Wunderkind to enfant terrible --- Engaging with tradition --- Reactualising Islam : universal doctrine, cultural cosmopolitanism --- The transformation of a Muslim modernist --- The search for method --- Reconstructing Islam : heritage and renewal --- A cultural and intellectual border crosser --- Applied Islamology --- Rethinking Islam : from Islamic humanism to emerging reason --- New muslim intellectuals : cosmopolitan and heretical.

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Text of Note

Dramatic political events involving Muslims across the world have put Islam under increased scrutiny. However, the focus of this attention is generally limited to the political realm and often even further confined by constrictive views of Islamism narrowed down to its most extremist exponents. Much less attention is paid to the parallel development of more liberal alternative Islamic discourses. The final decades of the twentieth-century has also seen the emergence of a Muslim intelligentsia exploring new and creative ways of engaging with the Islamic heritage. Drawing on advances made in the Western human sciences and understanding Islam in comprehensive terms as a civilisation rather than restricting it to religion in a conventional sense their ideas often cause controversy, even inviting accusations of heresy. Cosmopolitans and Heretics examines three of these new Muslim intellectuals who combine a solid grounding in the Islamic tradition with an equally intimate familiarity with the latest achievements of Western scholarship in religion. This cosmopolitan attitude challenges existing stereotypes and makes these thinkers difficult to categorise. Underscoring the global dimensions of new Muslim intellectualism, Kersten analyses contributions to contemporary Islamic thought of the late Nurcholish Madjid, Indonesia's most prominent public intellectual of recent decades, Hasan Hanafi, one of the leading philosophers in Egypt, and the influential French-Algerian historian of Islam Mohammed Arkoun. Emphasising their importance for the rethinking of the study of Islam as a field of academic inquiry, this is the first book of its kind and a welcome addition to the intellectual history of the modern Muslim world. -- Publisher description.

Entry Element

Islam

Entry Element

Islam

Entry Element

Islam

Entry Element

Islam

Entry Element

Islam

Topical Subdivision

History

Topical Subdivision

History

Topical Subdivision

Historiography.

Topical Subdivision

Historiography.

Topical Subdivision

Study and teaching.

Chronological Subdivision

20th century.

Chronological Subdivision

21st century.

Edition

Class number

Book number

Entry Element

Kersten, Carool.

Country

ایران

Agency

University of Tehran. Central Library and Documentation Center

Date of Transaction

20191229095138.0

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