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New methods in the study of Islam / edited by Abbas Aghdassi and Aaron W. Hughes.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Advances in the study of IslamPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022Copyright date: e2022Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 332 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781399503518
  • 1399503510
  • 9781399503525
  • 1399503529
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: New methods in the study of Islam.DDC classification:
  • 297.0711 23
LOC classification:
  • BP42 .N49 2022eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • EL 7910
Online resources:
Contents:
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
Summary: Offers an innovative study of traditional and new methodologies used to study Islam.
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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)3389752

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

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

Offers an innovative study of traditional and new methodologies used to study Islam.