A Berber from the mountainous region of Algeria, Mohammed Arkoun is an internationally renowned scholar of Islamic thought. In this book, he advocates a conception of Islam as a stream of experience encompassing majorities and minorities, Sunni and Shi'a, popular...
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A Berber from the mountainous region of Algeria, Mohammed Arkoun is an internationally renowned scholar of Islamic thought. In this book, he advocates a conception of Islam as a stream of experience encompassing majorities and minorities, Sunni and Shi'a, popular mystics and erudite scholars, ancient heroes and modern critics. A product of Islamic culture, Arkoun nonetheless disagrees with the Islamic establishment and militant Islamist groups; as a student of twentieth-century social science in the West and an admirer of liberalism, he self-consciously distances himself from Western Orientalists and Western conceptions of liberalism.This book-the first of Arkoun's works to be widely available in English-presents his responses to twenty-four deceptively simple questions, including: Can one speak of a scientific understanding of Islam in the West or must one rather talk about the Western way of imagining Islam? What do the words "Islam," "Muslim," and "Qur'an" mean? What is meant by "revelation" and "tradition''? What did Islam retain from the previously revealed religions-Judaism and Christianity? What did it retain from the religions and customs of pre-Islamic Arabia? In answering these and other questions, Arkoun provides an introduction to one of the world's great religions and offers a biting, radical critique of Islamology as it has been practiced in both East and West.This is a book for the beginning student of Islam and for the general reader uneasy with media images of Islam as a monolithic, anti-Western, violence-prone religion. It is also a book for specialists seeking an entré into Arkoun's methhodology-his efforts toapply contemporary thinking about anthropology, philosophy, semiotics, history, and sociology to the Islamic tradition and its relationship to the West. It is a book for anyone concerned about the identity crisis that has left many Muslims estranged from both a modernity imposed upon them and a tradition subverted for nationalist and Islamist purposes.
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PRODUCT DETAIL
- Catalogue Code 129070
- Product Code 0813322944
- EANÂ 9780813322940
- Pages 160
- Department Academic
- Category World Religions
- Sub-Category Islam & Muslim
- Publisher Baker & Taylor
- Publication Date Jul 1994
- Dimensions 229 x 153 x 11mm
- Weight 0.270kg
M Arkoun
Mohammed Arkoun is Emeritus Professor at the Sorbonne, Paris, and Editor of Arabica: Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies.
- 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.