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RETHINKING ISLAMIC STUDIES
FROM ORIENTALISM TO COSMOPOLITANISM |
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Hardback |
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£59.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1570038929 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781570038921 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2010 |
| Pages: |
312 |
| Description: |
Presents a study of Islam, and offers approaches to the theoretical and methodological frameworks that have traditionally dominated the field. This title examines the underlying notions of modernity in the East and West. It addresses the volatile character of Islamic religious identity as expressed in religious and political movements. |
| Synopsis: |
This is a groundbreaking response to the challenges of interpreting Islamic religion in the post-9/11 and post-Orientalist era. "Rethinking Islamic Studies" upends scholarly roadblocks in post-Orientalist discourse within contemporary Islamic studies and carves fresh inroads toward a robust new understanding of the discipline, one that includes religious studies and other politically infused fields of inquiry. Editors Carl W. Ernst and Richard C. Martin, along with a distinguished group of scholars, map the trajectory of the study of Islam and offer innovative approaches to the theoretical and methodological frameworks that have traditionally dominated the field. In the volume's first section, the contributors reexamine the underlying notions of modernity in the East and West and allow for the possibility of multiple and incongruent modernities. This opens a discussion of fundamentalism as a manifestation of the tensions of modernity in Muslim cultures. The second section addresses the volatile character of Islamic religious identity as expressed in religious and political movements at national and local levels.In the third section, contributors focus on Muslim communities in Asia and examine the formation of religious models and concepts as they appear in this region. This study concludes with an afterword by accomplished Islamic studies scholar Bruce B. Lawrence reflecting on the evolution of this post-Orientalist approach to Islam and placing the volume within existing and emerging scholarship. "Rethinking Islamic Studies" offers original perspectives for the discipline, each utilizing the tools of modern academic inquiry, to help illuminate contemporary incarnations of Islam for a growing audience of those invested in a sharper understanding of the Muslim world. |
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US |
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University of South Carolina Press |
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