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  • 1
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    Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press
    ISBN: 9780674047426
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 336 Seiten , 25 cm
    DDC: 297.1/25163
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    Keywords: Muḥammad ; Islam Controversial literature ; Islam History To 1500 ; Islam Origin ; Islamic heresies ; Muḥammad 570-632 ; Islam ; Koran
    Abstract: One of the most controversial episodes in the life of the Prophet Muhammad concerns an incident in which he allegedly mistook words suggested by Satan as divine revelation. Known as the Satanic verses, these praises to the pagan deities contradict the Islamic belief that Allah is one and absolute. Muslims today--of all sects--deny that the incident of the Satanic verses took place. But as Shahab Ahmed explains, Muslims did not always hold this view. Before Orthodoxy wrestles with the question of how religions establish truth--especially religions such as Islam that lack a centralized authority to codify beliefs. Taking the now universally rejected incident of the Satanic verses as a case study in the formation of Islamic orthodoxy, Ahmed shows that early Muslims, circa 632 to 800 CE, held the exact opposite belief. For them, the Satanic verses were an established fact in the history of the Prophet. Ahmed offers a detailed account of the attitudes of Muslims to the Satanic verses in the first two centuries of Islam and traces the chains of transmission in the historical reports known as riwāyah. Touching directly on the nature of Muhammad's prophetic visions, the interpretation of the Satanic verses incident is a question of profound importance in Islam, one that plays a role in defining the limits of what Muslims may legitimately say and do--issues crucial to understanding the contemporary Islamic world.--
    Note: Mit Register , Includes bibliographical references and index , Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 303-326
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  • 2
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    Princeton : Princeton University Press
    ISBN: 9780691178318 , 0691178313
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 609 Seiten , Illustrationen , 24 cm
    Edition: Fourth printing, and first paperback printing
    DDC: 297
    Keywords: Islam ; Anthropology Methodology ; Islamic sociology ; Islam ; Geschichte
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 547-591
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  • 3
    ISSN: 0003-0279
    Language: Undetermined
    Titel der Quelle: Journal of the American Oriental Society
    Publ. der Quelle: Ann Arbor, Mich : Soc
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 120, No. 1 (2000), p. 24-43
    DDC: 490
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  • 4
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    Online Resource
    Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press
    ISBN: 9781400873586
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 609 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Karte
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Culture ; Social Sciences ; Sociology ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Islam ; Social Sciences Sociology ; Cultureh ; Islam ; Islam
    Abstract: What is Islam? How do we grasp a human and historical phenomenon characterized by such variety and contradiction? What is "Islamic" about Islamic philosophy or Islamic art? Should we speak of Islam or of islams? Should we distinguish the Islamic (the religious) from the Islamicate (the cultural)? Or should we abandon "Islamic" altogether as an analytical term?In What Is Islam?, Shahab Ahmed presents a bold new conceptualization of Islam that challenges dominant understandings grounded in the categories of "religion" and "culture" or that privilege law and scripture. He argues that these modes of thinking obstruct us from understanding Islam, distorting it, diminishing it, and rendering it incoherent.What Is Islam? formulates a new conceptual language for analyzing Islam. It presents a new paradigm of how Muslims have historically understood divine revelation—one that enables us to understand how and why Muslims through history have embraced values such as exploration, ambiguity, aestheticization, polyvalence, and relativism, as well as practices such as figural art, music, and even wine drinking as Islamic. It also puts forward a new understanding of the historical constitution of Islamic law and its relationship to philosophical ethics and political theory.A book that is certain to provoke debate and significantly alter our understanding of Islam, What Is Islam? reveals how Muslims have historically conceived of and lived with Islam as norms and truths that are, at once, contradictory yet coherent
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    Princeton : Princeton University Press
    ISBN: 9780691164182 , 0691164185 , 9780691178318 , 0691178313
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 609 pages , illustrations , 25 cm
    DDC: 306.697
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    Keywords: Islam ; Islam
    Abstract: "A book that is certain to provoke debate and significantly alter our understanding of Islam, [this work] reveals how Muslims have historically conceived of and lived with Islam as norms and truths that are at once contradictory yet coherent"--Front jacket flap
    Abstract: "What is Islam? How do we grasp a human and historical phenomenon characterized by such variety and contradiction? What is "Islamic" about Islamic philosophy or Islamic art? Should we speak of Islam or of islams? Should we distinguish the Islamic (the religious) from the Islamicate (the cultural)? Or should we abandon "Islamic" altogether as an analytical term? In What Is Islam?, Shahab Ahmed presents a bold new conceptualization of Islam that challenges dominant understandings grounded in the categories of "religion" and "culture" or those that privilege law and scripture. He argues that these modes of thinking obstruct us from understanding Islam, distorting it, diminishing it, and rendering it incoherent. What Is Islam? formulates a new conceptual language for analyzing Islam. It presents a new paradigm of how Muslims have historically understood divine revelation--one that enables us to understand how and why Muslims through history have embraced values such as exploration, ambiguity, aestheticization, polyvalence, and relativism, as well as practices such as figural art, music, and even wine drinking as Islamic. It also puts forward a new understanding of the historical constitution of Islamic law and its relationship to philosophical ethics and political theory. A book that is certain to provoke debate and significantly alter our understanding of Islam, What Is Islam? reveals how Muslims have historically conceived of and lived with Islam as norms and truths that are at once contradictory yet coherent."--Publisher's description
    Description / Table of Contents: Part one. Questions. What is Islam? ; Chapter 1. Six Questions about Islam -- Part two. Conceptualizations. Chapter 2. Islam as Law, islams-not-Islam, Islamic and Islamicate, Religion and Culture, Culture and Civilization ; Chapter 3. Religion and Secular, Sacred and Profane, Theocentric and Anthropocentric, Total Social Fact, Family Resemblance ; Chapter 4. Culture, Meaning, Symbol System, Core and Nucleus, Whatever-Muslims-Say-It-Is, Discursive Tradition, Orthodoxy, Process -- Part three. Re-Conceptualizations. Chapter 5. Hermeneutical Engagement, Pre-Text, Text, and Con-Text, Meaning-Making for the Self, Spatiality of Revelation, Hierarchy, Exteriority-Interiority, Public and Private, Language and Vocabulary, Ambivalence and Ambiguity, Metaphor and Paradox ; Chapter 6. Applications and Implications : Coherent Contradiction, Exploration, Diffusion, Form and Meaning, Modern ; The Importance of Being Islamic.
    Note: +++Achtung+++Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke! , Includes bibliographical references and index
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