Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage

ISBN-13: 9781474432160 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 280 str.

Elisabeth Kendall; Ahmad Khan

Opis

This book profiles some of the fundamental debates that have defined the conversation between the past and the present in the Islamic world, including: Qur'anic exegesis, Islamic law, gender, violence and eschatology.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction, Elisabeth Kendall & Ahmad Khan; 1. Modern Shi?ite Legal Theory and the Classical Tradition, Robert Gleave; 2. Mu?ammad N???r al-D?n al-Alb?n? and Traditional Hadith Criticism, Christopher Melchert; 3. Islamic Tradition in an Age of Print: Editing, Printing, and Publishing the Classical Tradition, Ahmad Khan; 4. Reaching into the Obscure Past: The Islamic Legal Heritage and Reform in the Modern Period, Jonathan A. C. Brown; 5. Reading S?rat al-An??m with Mu?ammad Rash?d Ri?? and Sayyid Qu?b, Nicolai Sinai; 6. Contemporary Iranian Interpretations of the Qur`an and Tradition on Women’s Testimony, Karen Bauer; 7. Ibn Taymiyya between Moderation and Radicalism, Jon Hoover; 8. The Impact of a Sixteenth-Century Jihad Treatise on Colonial and Modern India, Carole Hillenbrand; 9. Jihadist Propaganda and Its Exploitation of the Arab Poetic Tradition, Elisabeth Kendall; 10. Contemporary Salafi Literature on Paradise and Hell: The Case of ?Umar Sulaym?n al-Ashqar, Christian Lange; Index.