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Religion as Critique : Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace /

"Irfan Ahmad makes the far-reaching argument that potent systems and modes for self-critique as well as critique of others are inherent in Islam--indeed, critique is integral to its fundamental tenets and practices. Challenging common views of Islam as hostile to critical thinking, Ahmad deline...

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Autor principal: Ahmad, Irfan, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Transliteration
  • PROLOGUE
  • PART I: Formulation
  • 1 INTRODUCTION
  • The Ubiquitous Absence, or the Received Wisdom
  • The Absent Ubiquity, or the Argument
  • Amartya Sen and The Argumentative Indian
  • Design of Intervention
  • 2 CRITIQUE: Western and/or Islamic
  • The Enlightenment as Ethnicity
  • Anthropology and Critique
  • Reconfiguring the Axial Age: Critique before the Enlightenment
  • Islam as Critique
  • 3 THE MODES: Another Genealogy of Critique
  • Critique-Tanqīd/Naqd-in Urdu
  • Elements of an Alternative Genealogy
  • Religion and Literature: Believing Ghalib
  • Divine Critique
  • PART II: Illustration
  • 4 THE MESSAGE: A Critical Enterprise
  • Maududi Dereified
  • Frame and Method: The Permanence of Ijtihad and 'Aql
  • The Postulates
  • The Aims
  • 5 THE STATE: (In)dispensable, Desirable, Revisable?
  • Rupture and Continuity
  • Forceful Arguments
  • Recovering Universalism
  • Exceptions of the State
  • 6 THE DIFFERENCE: Women and (In)equality
  • Maududi's Janus-Like Neopatriarchate
  • Neopatriarchate in Its Place: Multiple Critiques
  • Context of Transformation
  • Terms for Use
  • 7 THE MUNDANE: Critique as Social-Cultural Practice
  • Critique in Movement
  • Homo Khidmatiqus
  • Critique in Everyday Life: The Power of Proverbs
  • The Greed of the Mullah, the Creed of the Ungodly
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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