ISBN:
9781478010241
,
9781478011293
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 465 Seiten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Lawrence, Bruce B The Bruce B. Lawrence reader
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Lawrence, Bruce B., 1941 - The Bruce B. Lawrence Reader
DDC:
297
Keywords:
Islam
;
Islam
;
Muslim
Abstract:
Theorizing Islam in World History -- Introduction to Shattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence (1998) -- Islam in Afro-Eurasia: A Bridge Civilization (2010) -- Muslim Cosmopolitanism (2012) -- Genius Denied and Reclaimed: Hodgson's The Venture of Islam (2014) -- Revaluing Muslim Comparativists -- Al-Biruni: Against the Grain (2014) -- Shahrastani on Indian Idol Worship (1973) -- Introduction to Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah (2005/2015) -- Mystical and Rational Elements in the Early Religious Writings of Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1979) -- Translating Institutional Sufism -- Can Sufi Texts Be Translated? Can They Be Translated from Indo-Persian to American-English? (1990) -- "What Is a Sufi Order? 'Golden Age' and 'Decline' in the Historiography of Sufism," from Sufi Martyrs of Love: The Chishti Order in South Asia and Beyond (2002, Coauthored with Carl W. Ernst) -- Sufism and Neo-Sufism (2010) -- "Allah Remembered: Practice of the Heart," from Who Is Allah? (2015) -- Deconstructing Religious Modernity -- "Fundamentalism as a Religious Ideology in Multiple Contexts" and Conclusion, from Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt against the Modern Age (1989) -- "The Shah Bano Case," from On Violence: A Reader (2007) -- Introduction to Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden (2005) -- Muslim Engagement with Injustice and Violence (2013) -- Networking Muslim Citizenship -- Preface and Conclusion, from New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life (2002) -- "W. D. Mohammed: Qur'an as Guide to Racial Equality," from The Qur'an: A Biography (2006) -- Introduction to Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop (2005, Coauthored with Miriam Cooke) -- "AIDS Victims and Sick Women: Qur'an as Prescription for Mercy," from The Qur'an: A Biography (2006) -- Reflecting the Divine Other in Words and Images -- Approximating Saj in English Renditions of the Qur'an: A Close Reading of Sura 93 (al-Ḍuḥā) and the Basmala (2005) -- Epilogue to The Qur'an: A Biography (2006) -- A Metaphysical Secularist? Decoding M. F. Husain as a Muslim Painter in Exile (2011) -- Conclusion, from Who Is Allah? (2015) -- The Future of Islamic Studies: Bruce B. Lawrence Interviewed by Ali Altaf Mian.
Abstract:
"Over the course of his career, Bruce B. Lawrence has explored the central elements of Islamicate civilization and Muslim networks. This Reader assembles over two dozen selections of Lawrence's key writings, which range from analyses of premodern and modern Islamic discourses, practices, and institutions to methodological reflections on the contextual study of religion. Six methodologies serve as the organizing rubric: theorizing Islam, revaluing Muslim comparativists, translating Sufism, deconstructing religious modernity, networking Muslims, and reflecting on the Divine. Throughout, Lawrence attributes the resilience of Islam to its cosmopolitan character and Muslims' engagement in cross-cultural dialogue. Several essays also address the central role of institutional Sufism in various phases and domains of Islamic history. The volume concludes with Lawrence's reflections on Islam's spiritual and aesthetic resources in the context of global comity. Modeling what it means to study Islam beyond political and disciplinary borders, as well as a commitment to linking empathetic imagination with critical reflection, this Reader presents Lawrence's prescient contributions to the study of Islam in its broadest arc"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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