Beyond Modernity
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Beyond Modernity

Critical Perspectives on Islam, Tradition and Power

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Beyond Modernity

Critical Perspectives on Islam, Tradition and Power

About this book

A contest is afoot in Muslim discourses around the world in the twenty-first century. Prevalent norms and acts are subject to competing motivations, trends and forces. The image of a monolithic Islam is thus wholly inadequate to identify and interpret the different expressions of Muslim thought and practice in their specific yet connected contexts. This book proposes competing and persuasive perspectives for interpreting what Muslims say, do and think in collective settings or in the light of common frames of reference. The chapters contained in this book reflect a diversity of disciplines and interests. Nonetheless, a common thread of the preoccupation with meanings in context unites the contributors and the approaches to their chosen examples. Islam is not a discrete category that is taken for granted. Instead, the cacophony of voices in the Muslim world situated in specific contexts, variously national, regional or global, is allowed to inform each chapter. Here one encounters contemporary Muslims participating in discourses with a contested character that create opportunities to augment or question orthodox dictates or transmit or alter existing beliefs and practices. What emerges are nuanced portraits of contemporary Muslim thought and practice that reveal a far from monolithic Islam to which all things Islamic can be reduced.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Introduction: Beyond Modernity? Interpreting Muslim Thought and Practice
  6. Chapter 1: Problematising the Compatibility of Islam and Democracy through a Hermeneutical Approach
  7. Chapter 2: The Urgency of Changing the Arab World: The Case of Adonis, Mohammed ʿAbed Al-Jabri and Mohammed Arkoun*
  8. Chapter 3: Reconstruction of the Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿ in Ibn ʿĀshūr’s Legal Philosophy
  9. Chapter 4: The Ḥijāb between Competing Masculinities in Contemporary Turkey
  10. Chapter 5: The Wahhabi Ascendancy and the Decline of the Ashrāf in Saudi Arabia
  11. Chapter 6: Jawdat Said’s Path Towards Nonviolence
  12. Chapter 7: A Turn to Hermeneutics: Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd‘s Rethinking of Religion and Tradition in Japan
  13. Chapter 8: Religious Authority and the Making of al-Sistanī’s Charismatic Leadership in Post-2003 Iraq
  14. Bibliography
  15. About the Authors