Heidegger, Hermeneutics, and the Interpretation of Islam
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Revealing how Heidegger's philosophy and the religious beliefs of Islam are fundamentally incompatible, this book challenges previous assumptions about Heidegger's relationship to Islam. This book takes the view that they in fact stand apart. A compelling and innovative comparison, this book explores how the two have been mistakenly woven together through the imaginations of certain scholars and how others continue to utilise Heidegger in that vein.
Exploring this, the book delivers an original study of Islam using Heidegger's philosophy. Starting from the premise that Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology establishes an important point of reference for thinking about society and politics as well as religion. Following this approach, this book analyses the thought of pivotal Muslim figures in relation to Heidegger's position to assess not whether they were "proto-Heideggerian" or "pseudo-Heideggerian" but rather to what extent these thinkers understood the problematics of religion, politics, and society as a hermeneutical problem.
A critical point of discussion for our age in light of the prominence of political Islam narrative, this book speaks to metaphysical blind spots of Islamic thought that have produced dangerous ideologies hostile to the West, which seem to reflect Heidegger's philosophy but are not based on it in reality.
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Milad Milani is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Western Sydney University, Australia and a School-based Member of the Institute for Culture and Society.
Zolt Salontai is Adjunct Fellow in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University, Australia
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Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Contextualization, Problematization, and Questions
Part I: Intellectual, Historical, and Cultural Context
1. Contextualizing Heidegger's Philosophy for an Examination of Islam's Intellectual Tradition
2. The Question of Renaissance and Reformation for Islam
3. Sober Truth and Mad for Change
4. Civilization East and West: The Exchange and Flow of Ideas
Part II: Classical Islamic Thought
5. al-Farabi's Renaissance: Faith, Politics and the Ontological Possibility
6. Ibn Sina the Renaissance Man: The Role of Thinking and the Potentiality of Ontology
7. al-Ghazali's Conflict: Theologizing Metaphysics and the Concealment of Truth
8. Ibn Rushd's Highest Rationalism: Metaphysical Theology and the Supremacy of Law
9. Nasir al-Din Tusi: The Masks of Wisdom and the Religiopolitical Master
10. Ibn Taymiyya: The Question of an Islamic Reformation
11. Ibn Khaldun: Islamic Truth and History
Part III: Islamic Modernity
12. Asadabadi ("al-Afghani"): The Religiopolitical Awakening of Islam
13. Iqbal: The Enlightenment of Islam and Islamic Modernity
14. Qutb's Hermeneutics of a Fallen State: Restoration of Religion and the
15. Shari'ati: The Hermeneutics of Revolution and the "Freethinker"
16. Taha: The Hermeneutics of a Future Islam
Conclusion: Revival, Reform, and the State of Muslim Intellectualism
Bibliography
Index