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Beyond Modernity
Critical Perspectives on Islam, Tradition and Power
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2023
Summary
A contest is afoot in Muslim discourses around the world in the twenty-first century. Prevalent norms and acts are subject to competing motivations, trends and forces. The image of a monolithic Islam is thus wholly inadequate to identify and interpret the different expressions of Muslim thought and practice in their specific yet connected contexts. This book proposes competing and persuasive perspectives for interpreting what Muslims say, do and think in collective settings or in the light of common frames of reference. The chapters contained in this book reflect a diversity of disciplines and interests. Nonetheless, a common thread of the preoccupation with meanings in context unites the contributors and the approaches to their chosen examples. Islam is not a discrete category that is taken for granted. Instead, the cacophony of voices in the Muslim world situated in specific contexts, variously national, regional or global, is allowed to inform each chapter. Here one encounters contemporary Muslims participating in discourses with a contested character that create opportunities to augment or question orthodox dictates or transmit or alter existing beliefs and practices. What emerges are nuanced portraits of contemporary Muslim thought and practice that reveal a far from monolithic Islam to which all things Islamic can be reduced.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-5381-5094-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-5381-5095-5
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
210
Product type
Edited Book
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Preface No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 22
Problematising the Compatibility of Islam and Democracy through a Hermeneutical Approach No access Pages 23 - 42
The Urgency of Changing the Arab World No access Pages 43 - 64
Reconstruction of the Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿa in Ibn ʿĀshūr’s Legal Philosophy No access Pages 65 - 84
The Ḥijāb between Competing Masculinities in Contemporary Turkey No access Pages 85 - 102
The Wahhabi Ascendancy and the Decline of the Ashrāf in Saudi Arabia No access Pages 103 - 120
Jawdat Said’s Path Towards Nonviolence No access Pages 121 - 140
A Turn to Hermeneutics No access Pages 141 - 162
Religious Authority and the Making of al-Sistanī’s Charismatic Leadership in Post-2003 Iraq No access Pages 163 - 182
