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This work presents some 20 essays on differnet aspects of Islam in history and the present. Throughout the book the author shows the links between the religious and other interpretations and uses made in Islam and the contexts in which they are made
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de Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin : |
| Publication Dates: | 2002 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Religion and reason ;
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| Summary: |
This work presents some 20 essays on differnet aspects of Islam in history and the present. Throughout the book the author shows the links between the religious and other interpretations and uses made in Islam and the contexts in which they are made |
| Item Description: | Literaturangaben |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(436pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [405]-417) and indexes |
| ISBN: | 9783110200942 |
| Index Number: | BP161 |
| CLC: | B96 |
| Contents: |
Chapter 16Ideologization in Present-Day Islam: An ExplorationSection 9The International Scene and Islam; Chapter 17The Rise of Islamic States1; Chapter 18Islam as a Vehicle of Protest1; Chapter 19Islam in Present-Day Muslim States; Further Reading; 1. Index of Arabic and Persian Terms; 2. Index of Persons; 3. Geographical Names; 4. Index of Subjects; 5. Index of Concepts. Chapter 8Human Rights, Human Dignity, and IslamSection 5Social Reality and Islam; Chapter 9Islamic Religious Tradition and Social Development1; Chapter 10Islam's Function as a Civil Religion1; Section 6The Case of Arabia; Chapter 11The Wahh b s in Eighteenth andNineteenth Century Arabia; Chapter 12Saudi Arabia: The King and the Consul; Section 7Islamic Reform and Intellectual Reflection; Chapter 13Tsarist Russia and the Dutch East Indies1; Chapter 14Puritan Patterns in Islamic Revival Movements1; Section 8Islamic Ideology; Chapter 15The Call (Da wa) of Islamic Movements1. Preface; Content; Introductionand a Form of Acknowledgments; Section 1The Beginnings; Chapter 1Changes in Belief and the Rise of Islam; Chapter 2Faith and Reason in the Argumentation ofthe Qur' n; Chapter 3Islamic Attitudes to Signs1; Chapter 4Islam Studied in the Perspectiveof Science of Religion1; Section 3Structures and Interpretations of Islam; Chapter 5Official, Popular, and Normative Religion in Islam1; Chapter 6Are there Hermeneutic Principles in Islam?; Section 4Muslim Presentations of Islam and of Human Rights; Chapter 7Some North African Intellectuals' Presentations ofIslam1. |