The Construction of Belief (eBook, ePUB)

Reflections on the Thought of Mohammed Arkoun
Redaktion: Esmail, Aziz; Filali-Ansary, Abdou

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Mohammed Arkoun was one of the most prominent and influential Arab intellectuals of his day. During a career spanning more than thirty years, he was revered as an outstanding research scholar, a bold critic of the theoretical tensions embedded within Islamic Studies and an outspoken public figure, upholding political, social and cultural modernism. This Festschrift honours Arkoun’s scholarship, bringing together the contributions of eleven distinguished scholars of history, religious studies and philosophy. It offers a comprehensive selection of critical engagements with Arkoun’s work, reflecting on his considerable influence on contemporary thinking about Islam and its ideological, philosophical and theological dimensions. The authoritative reference study on the work of Mohammed Arkoun, The Construction of Belief is essential reading for students and scholars of Islam, Muslim societies and cultures, modernity, religious studies, philosophy and semantics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Saqi Books
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780863567667
• Artikelnr.: 38236207

Autorenporträt

Dr Aziz Esmail is a governor of The Institute of Ismaili Studies,London. He has held teaching and research positions at various American universities, and has been associated with Harvard University's Centre for the Study of World Religions and Graduate School of Education. His writings include The Poetics of Religious Experience: The Islamic Context and A Scent of Sandalwood: Indo- Ismaili Religious Lyrics. Dr.Abdou Filali-Ansary was the founding Director of the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in London from 2002-9 and of the King Abdul-Aziz Foundation for Islamic Studies and Human Sciences in Casablanca, Morocco, from 1984-2001. Prior to this, he served as Secretary-General of the Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, teaching Modern Philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents:
Professor Mohammed Arkoun (1928-2010) 7
Preface: Situating Arkoun 9
Abdou Filali-Ansary
Mohammed Arkoun:
A Personal Tribute and an Intellectual Assessment 17
Aziz Esmail
The Authenticity of Sacred Texts 45
R. Stephen Humphreys
Constructing Islam in the "Classical" Period:
Maqalat Literature and the Seventy-Two Sects 63
Josef van Ess
Modern Discourses of Superiority:
Muslims and Christians in Contact 75
Stefan Wild
The Political, Social and Technological Construction
of Understanding: An Essay in Analysis of the Disruptive 93
Mark Sedgwick
Believing and Belonging:
The Impact of Religion for "Muslim" Adolescents in a Pluralistic
Society - Empirical Findings from Hamburg, Germany 109
Ursula Günther
Veiling and Unveiling Muslim Women:
State Coercion, Islam, and the "Disciplines of the Heart" 127
Malika Zeghal
Coming to Believe:
The (Elusive) Time of Conversion 150
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
The Shadow of Terror on Distant Muslims 161
Akeel Bilgrami
Citational Exegesis of the Qur'an:
Towards a Theoretical Framework for the Construction
of Meaning in Classical Islamic Thought.
The Case of the Epistles of the Pure Brethren (Rasa'il Ikhwan al-?afa') 168
Omar Alí-de-Ungaza
Afterword 195
Mohammed Arkoun: A Passionate Critic 207
About the Contributors 209
Index 215