With the War on Terror and the perceived clash between the West and Islam being a highly topical issue in world politics today, this book is a radical piece of counter-intuitive thinking on the clash of civilizations theory and global politics.
This work provides a rich analysis of the thought-ways of specific Muslim intellectuals, thereby substantiating a broadly framed school of thought.
The essays are already published on Dr Alehossein's weblog (http: //www.opendemocracy.net/author/ahmad-alehossein). They are not submitted to any institute for assessment. Alehossein is a senior researcher and teacher myself.
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Note on transliteration -- Foreword -- Introduction: broader contextualisation of progressive Islam -- 1 The poiesis imperative -- 2 The epistemological imperative -- 3 The religious ...
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The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the current state of the field.
What is new in the modern period is that new methodologies of Qur'anic exegesis became an alternative to traditional ... In that approach the sociopolitical exclusion of non-Muslims is more apparent than theological refutation.
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In this remarkable volume, Hamid Dabashi brings together, in a sustained and engagingly written narrative, the leading revolutionaries who have shaped the ideological disposition of this cataclysmic event.
This book will be of interest to students of theology as well as to sociologists, political theorists and historians.