TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aghdassi,Abbas
AU  - Hughes,Aaron W.
TI  - New methods in the study of Islam
T2  - Advances in the study of Islam
SN  - 9781399503518
AV  - BP42 .N49 2022eb
U1  - 297.0711 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Islam
KW  - Study and teaching (Higher)
KW  - HISTORY / Middle East / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Why new methods in the study of Islam? -- Part I. Methods: Old and new. New methods, old methods in the study of Islam : on the importance of translation -- The reception of al-Andalus, 1821-2021 : two hundred years of study and debate -- Part II. Textual studies. Subversive philology? Prosopography as a relational and corpus-based approach to early Islamic history -- Juxtaposition, tension, play : the development of Islamic law and legal theory -- New theoretical approaches to the Qurʼān and Qurʼānic studies : an analysis of the Qurʼānic (disabled) body in light of conceptual metaphor and conceptual blending theory -- Part III. Islam and/as critique. On the relationship between culture/religion and politics : a critique of the culturalist approach to Islam -- Part IV. New comparisons. Can comparative theology help Muslims to a better understanding of religious diversity? -- Part V. Local Islams. Eastern or Western paradigm : the struggle for methodological dominance in the study of Islam in universities in Northern Nigeria -- Narratives from the peripheries : an Indian Ocean perspective for the study of Islam -- Including localised Islamic concepts in the study of Islam -- Bodies, things, doings : a practice theory approach to the study of Islam
N2  - Offers an innovative study of traditional and new methodologies used to study Islam
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ER  -