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What is Islamic studies? : European and North American approaches to a contested field.

Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781399500029
  • 1399500023
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 297.07104 23
LOC classification:
  • BP43.E85 W43 2022
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • EL 7910
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. What is Islamic Studies? European and North American Approaches to a Contested Field -- Chapter 1. There is No Data for Islam: Testing the Utility of a Category -- Chapter 2. Critics as Caretakers, Religion as Critique -- Chapter 3. Talal Asad and the Question of Islamic Secularities -- Chapter 4. Territory at Stake! In Defence of 'Religion' and 'Islam' -- Chapter 5. Power Practices and Pop: The Islam of Zain Bhikha -- Chapter 6. Islam in the Making: History, Discourses, the Quran and Modern Science -- Chapter 7. Paradigms of Religion and the Swift Birth of Islam: Wilfred Cantwell Smith Revisited -- Chapter 8. Prospects for a New Idiom for Islamic History -- Chapter 9. Constructing Islamic Studies: Gender, Power and Critique as Ethical Tools -- About the Contributors -- Index
Summary: Featuring contributions from anthropologists, historians and scholars of religion, this book explores the passionate, divided and evolving field of Islamic Studies in Europe and North America, past and present - covering topics from secularism and gender to pop music and modern science.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)3198338

Featuring contributions from anthropologists, historians and scholars of religion, this book explores the passionate, divided and evolving field of Islamic Studies in Europe and North America, past and present - covering topics from secularism and gender to pop music and modern science.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. What is Islamic Studies? European and North American Approaches to a Contested Field -- Chapter 1. There is No Data for Islam: Testing the Utility of a Category -- Chapter 2. Critics as Caretakers, Religion as Critique -- Chapter 3. Talal Asad and the Question of Islamic Secularities -- Chapter 4. Territory at Stake! In Defence of 'Religion' and 'Islam' -- Chapter 5. Power Practices and Pop: The Islam of Zain Bhikha -- Chapter 6. Islam in the Making: History, Discourses, the Quran and Modern Science -- Chapter 7. Paradigms of Religion and the Swift Birth of Islam: Wilfred Cantwell Smith Revisited -- Chapter 8. Prospects for a New Idiom for Islamic History -- Chapter 9. Constructing Islamic Studies: Gender, Power and Critique as Ethical Tools -- About the Contributors -- Index