Covering the last 50 years of Western thought on Islam, this is an essential reading and reference tool for scholars of Islamic studies and religious studies. The articles are intellectually bold and provide a comprehensive understanding of the different dimensions of Islam. Volume One: Qur'an and Prophecy. Volume Two: Islamic thought, law, and Ethics. Volume Three: Worship and Ritual. Volume Four: Gender and Politics INDICE: VOLUME 1: QUR'AN AND PROPHECY / Qur'an / Richard C. Martin Understanding the Qur'an in Text and Context / William Graham Qur'an as Spoken Word /Jane Dammen McAuliffe The tasks and tradition of interpretation / Nasr Abu-Zayd The Dilemma of the Literary Approach to the Qur'an / Angelika Neuwirth Structure and the Emergence of Community / Michael Sells Sound, Spirit and Gender in Surat al-Qadr / Fazlur Rahman Some key Ethical Concepts of the Qur'an / Frederick M. Denny The Will in the Qur'an / Dan Madigan Themes and Topics / Chibli Mallat Readings of the Qur'an in London and Najaf / Norman Calder History and Nostalgia, Reflection on John Wansbrough's The Sectarian Milieu / Prophecy /Earle H. Waugh Images of Muhammed in the Work of Iqbal / Sarah Stroumsa The Signs of Prophecy: The emergence and early development of a theme in Arabic theological literature / Uri Rubin Pre-existence and Light / Oleg Grabar The Story of the Portraits of the Prophet Muhammad / Valerie J. Hoffman-Ladd Devotion to the Prophet and His Family in Egyptian Sufism / Francis E. Peters The Questof the Historical Muhammad / VOLUME 2: ISLAMIC THOUGHT, LAW AND ETHICS / Binyamin Abrahamov Necessary Knowledge in Islamic Theology / Wesley Williams Aspects of the Creed of Imam Hanbal / David B. Burrell The Unknowability of God in al-Ghazali / Gustave E. von Grunebaum Muslim Concept of Evil / Mahmoud Ayoub Divine Preordination and Human Hope a Study of the Concept of Bad?' in Im?m? Sh?'? Tradition / Seyyed Hussein Nasr Conditions for Meaningful Comparative Philosophy / Christopher Melchert Traditionist-Jurisprudents and the Framing of Islamic Law / Ze'ev Maghen Dead Tradition: Joseph Schacht / Wael B. Hallaq Was the Gate of Ijtihad Closed? / Baber Johansen Signs as Evidence / Khaled Abou el-Fadl Islamic law and Muslim Minorities / Rudolph Peters The Islamization of criminal Law / Colin Imber Why You should Poison Your Husband: Note on liability in Hanaf? law in the Ottoman period / Mona Siddiqui Mahr: Legal obligation or rightful demand? / George F. Hourani Ethical Presuppositions of the Qu'ran /Charles E. Butterworth Ethics in Medieval Islamic Philosophy / Mohammed Arkoun The Answers of Applied Islamology / VOLUME 3: WORSHIP AND RITUAL / Ism?'?l R. al-F?r?q? The Essence of Religious Experience in Islam / Navi'd Kermani The Aesthetic Reception of the Qur'an as Reflected in Early Muslim History / Ism?'?l R. al-F?r?q?q Islam and Art / Marrion Katz The Hajj and the Study of Islamic Ritual / Jonathan Benthall Financial Worship: the Qur'anic injunction to almsgiving / Valerie Hoffman Eating and Fasting for God in Sufi Tradition / Judith Loebenstein Miracles in Š?'? Thought A Case-Study of the Miracles Attributedto Im?m ?a'far al-Šadiq / Annemarie Schimmel Some Aspects of Mystical Prayer in Islam / Saba Mahmoud Rehearsed Spontaneity and the Conventionality of Ritual: Disciplines of "Sal?t" / Nancy Tapper and Richard Tapper The Birth of the Prophet: Ritual and gender in Turkish Islam / Fatima Mernissi Women, Saints andSanctuaries / Rachel Harris and Rahilä Dawut Mazar Festivals of the Uyghurs: Music, Islam and the Chinese state / Muhammad Qasim Zaman Death, Funeral Processions, and the Articulation of Religious Authority in Early Islam / VOLUME 4:GENDER AND POLITICS / Asma Sayeed Women and Had?th Transmission: Two cases studies from Mamluk Damascus / Manuela Marin Disciplining Wives: A historical reading of Qur'an 4:34 / Jane I. Smith and Yvonne Y. Haddad Women in the Afterlife: The Islamic view as seen from Qur'?n and tradition / Valentine M. MoghademIslamic Feminism and Its Discontents: Toward a resolution of the debate / Afsaneh Najmabadi Gendered Transformations: Beauty, love, and sexuality in Qajar Iran / Ann Elizabeth Mayer Internationalising the Conversation on Women's rights: Arab countries face CEDAW committees / Sultan Barakat and Gareth Wardell Exploited by Whom? An Alternative Perspective on Humanitarian Assistance to Afghan Women / Monsoor Moaddel The Saudi Public Speaks: Religion, gender and politics / Ira M. Lapidus The Political Concepts of Islam / Ahmad Dallal The Origins and Objectives of Islamic Revivalist Thought, 1750 - 1850 / Richard W. Bulliet Rhetoric, Discourse and the Future of Hope / Robert W. Hefner Public Islamand the Problem of Democratisation / Farid Esack Three Islamic Strands in theSouth African Struggle for Justice / Behroz Ghamani Tabrizi Contentious Public Religion: Two concepts of Islam in revolutionary Iran - Ali Shariati and Abdolkarim Soroush / Peter Mandaville Globalization and the Politics of ReligiousKnowledge: Pluralizing authority in the muslim world
- ISBN: 978-1-84787-360-6
- Editorial: Sage Publications
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 1568
- Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 4
- Idioma: Inglés