Rethinking Islam
Common Questions, Uncommon Answers
Westview Press Inc
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 1994
Book
Hardback
139 pages
978-0-8133-8474-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Islamic scholar and commentator Mohammed Arkoun is a product of Islamic culture, but is also in many ways at odds with the Islamic establishment and militant Islamist groups. At the same time, whilst he is a student of 20th-century social science in the West and an admirer of liberalism, as a thinker he consciously distances himself from western orientalists and western understanding of liberalism. In this work Arkoun applies contemporary thinking about anthropology, philosophy, semiotics, history and sociology to the Islamic tradition and its relationship to the West. Presented as the author's answers to 24 deceptively simple questions about Islam, the book explores the identity crisis that has left many Muslims estranged both from an alien modernity and a tradition often subverted for nationalist and Islamist purposes.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8133-8474-0 (9780813384740)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Imagining Islam; Islam and Muslims; Church and State; secularism; nationalism; revelation; the Qu'ran; exegesis; Muhammed; Hadith; tradition; the ideal community; women; dogmas; sacerdotal power; authority; Judaism, Christianity and paganism; the Greek heritage; Islam, science and philosophy; Sufism; the person; human rights; ethics and politics; Mediterranean culture.