Reform and Its Perils in Contemporary Islam: The Case of Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd
Reform and Its Perils in Contemporary Islam is an intellectual history and critical analysis of the work of prominent Muslim scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (1943-2010), one of the 20th century's key Muslim reformers.
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| Type de support: | Électronique Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Service de livraison Subito: | Commander maintenant. |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
2024
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| Dans: | Année: 2024 |
| Édition: | 1st ed. |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Islamic renewal
B Social Change Religious aspects Islam B Authority Religious aspects Islam B Islam 21st century |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Édition parallèle: | Erscheint auch als: 9780197744093 |
| Résumé: | Reform and Its Perils in Contemporary Islam is an intellectual history and critical analysis of the work of prominent Muslim scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (1943-2010), one of the 20th century's key Muslim reformers. Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Note On Transliteration and Translation -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Clarifications of Terms -- Religious Discourse (al-Khiṭāb Al-Dīnī) -- Nahḍa: Abu Zayd and the Second Wave of Modernist Intellectuals -- The Importance of Abu Zayd -- Structure of the Book -- 1 Abu Zayd's Intellectual Lineage -- Personal Background -- Intellectual Influences -- Medieval Influences -- Conclusion -- 2 The Missteps of the Nahḍa Intellectuals -- Defining Turāth -- The Wrong Answer to the Wrong Question -- Europe's Influence -- Oversimplifications -- Science Without Thought -- Lack of Courage -- 3 The Shackles of History -- Instrumentalization and Selectivity -- The Oppressive Presence of History -- Modernity's Problematic Parent -- Mixing Religion With History -- Conclusion -- 4 Shariʿa and the Status of the Qurʾan -- The Status of the Qurʾan -- The Historical Versus the Eternal -- Hadith and Sunna -- Theologians' Input -- Conclusion -- 5 Islamic Secularism -- Historical Context -- Defining Secularism in Abu Zayd's Work -- Diversity Versus Uniformity -- Freedom of Doctrinal Choice Versus Coercion -- Piety Versus Politics -- Secularism as Prerequisite to Modernity -- The Response of the Religious Discourse and Its Ramifications -- Conclusion -- 6 Women's Rights -- Influences of Nahḍa Scholars -- The Emergence of the Crisis Discourse -- Blaming Theologians and the Religious Discourse -- Defending Islam, as He Saw It -- Centrality of the West -- Visibly Absent -- Women's Employment -- The Issue of Polygamy -- The Issue of Divorce -- The Issue of Inheritance -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. "Who speaks for Islam? What role, if any, does scholarship play in defining the contours of Islamic law and theology? Are all Muslims equal in their right to interpret the Quran? The answers to these questions bear on both intellectual and practical concerns across the globe. For centuries, only specialized scholars and jurists ulama could adjudicate matters related to Islamic theology and jurisprudence. However, with the advent of modernity and mass education, the ulama have lost much of their exclusive interpretive control to an ever-widening group of intellectuals, academics, and even activists. The ramifications of this shift in authority gained global attention in 1995, when Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (1943-2010), an Egyptian scholar of Islamic thought at the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at Cairo University as well as a practicing Muslim, was declared an apostate by the Egyptian Court of Appeals. Beyond earning Abu Zayd international fame, however, this declaration had serious consequences for his life and his career. Since the punishment for apostasy in the Islamic tradition is the death penalty, Abu Zayd's life was in danger. Furthermore, his marriage to his wife, Ebtehal Younes, a professor of French literature at Cairo University, was annulled by the court, as a Muslim woman cannot be married to a non-Muslim man. Younes equated the ruling with rape. Abu Zayd's experience of the highly publicized trial and the slander that accompanied it only strengthened his conviction that intellectual freedom is a prerequisite for progress"-- |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (273 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0197744117 |