Summary
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Key Readings
Whether it's the Qur'an, Prophecy, ritual, law, politics, or gender in Islam, this collection of articles will give you a glimpse of some of the leading debates in these topics. Covering the last fifty 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.
Editor's Introduction: Islam
This four volume collection has an ambitious aim. The primary objective is to give the reader a wide range of leading articles published in the select disciplines within Islamic Studies. While there have been several edited collections in recent years of articles on a single discipline such as Colin Turner's Koran, Lloyd Ridgeon's Sufism, and the more diverse social scientific perspectives in Bryan Turner's Islam there is (at least to my knowledge) no multi-volume collection of published articles on this number of different themes which reflect the diverse manifestations of Islam and Islamic thought.1 This collection is for those who have an informed interest in Islam as a global religion as well as those engaged in the academic study of Islam; for ...
Table of Contents
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Volume I: Qur'an and Prophecy
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1. Understanding the Qur'an in Text and Context
Richard Martin
1982
History of Religions
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2. Qur'ān as Spoken Word: An Islamic Contribution to the Understanding of Scripture
William Graham
1985
Approaches to Islam in Religious Studies
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3. The Tasks and Traditions of Interpretation
Jane McAuliffe
2006
McAuliffe The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'an
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4. The Dilemma of the Literary Approach to the Qur'an
Nasr Abu-Zayd
2003
Literature and the Sacred
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5. Structure and the Emergence of Community
Angelika Neuwirth
2006
The Blackwell Companion to the Qur'an
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6. Sound, Spirit, and Gender in Sūrat al-Qadr
Michael Sells
1991
Journal of the American Oriental Society
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7. The Light Verse: Qur'ānic Text and Ṣūfī Interpretation
Gerhard Böwering
2001
Oriens
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8. Some Key Ethical Concepts of the Qur'ān
Fazlur Rahman
1983
The Journal of Religious Ethics
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Frederick Denny
1981
Journal of Near Eastern Studies
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Daniel Madigan
2006
The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'an
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11. Readings of the Qur'ān in London and Najaf: John Wansbrough and Muḥammad Bāqir al-Ṣadr
Chibli Mallat
1994
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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12. History and Nostalgia: Reflections on John Wansbrough's The Sectarian Milieu
Norman Calder
1997
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion
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13. Images of Muḥammad in the Work of Iqbal: Tradition and Alterations
Earle Waugh
1983
History of Religions
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Sarah Stroumsa
1985
The Harvard Theological Review
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15. Pre-Existence and Light: Aspects of the Concept of Nūr Muḥammad
U. Rubin
1975
Israel Oriental Studies
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16. The Story of Portraits of the Prophet Muhammad
Oleg Grabar | Mika Natif
2003
Écriture, Calligraphie et Peinture
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17. Devotion to the Prophet and His Family in Egyptian Sufism
Valerie Hoffman-Ladd
1992
International Journal of Middle East Studies
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18. Metaphors and Sacred History: The Genealogy of Muhammad and the Arab “Tribe”
Daniel Varisco
1995
Varisco Anthropological Quarterly
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19. The Quest of the Historical Muhammad
F. Peters
1991
International Journal of Middle East Studies
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Volume II: Islamic Thought, Law, and Ethics
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20. Necessary Knowledge in Islamic Theology
Binyamin Abrahamov
1993
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
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Wesley Williams
2002
International Journal of Middle East Studies
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22. The Unknowability of God in al-Ghazali
David Burrell
1987
Religious Studies
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23. Observations on the Muslim Concept of Evil
G. von Grunebaum
1970
Studia Islamica
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24. Divine Preordination and Human Hope: A Study of the Concept of Badāʾ in Imāmī Shīʿī Tradition
Mahmoud Ayoub
1986
Journal of the American Oriental Society
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25. Conditions for Meaningful Comparative Philosophy
Seyyed Nasr
1972
Philosophy East and West
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26. Two Muslim-Christian Debates from the Early Shīʿite Tradition
David Thomas
1988
Journal of Semitic Studies
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27. Traditionist-Jurisprudents and the Framing of Islamic Law
Christopher Melchert
2001
Islamic Law and Society
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28. Dead Tradition: Joseph Schacht and the Origins of “Popular Practice”
Ze'ev Maghen
2003
Islamic Law and Society
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29. Was the Gate of Ijtihad Closed?
Wael Hallaq
1984
International Journal of Middle East Studies
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Baber Johansen
2002
Islamic Law and Society
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Khaled el-Fadl
1994
Islamic Law and Society
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32. The Islamization of Criminal Law: A Comparative Analysis
Rudolph Peters
1994
Die Welt des Islams
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33. Why You Should Poison Your Husband: A Note on Liability in Ḥanafī Law in the Ottoman Period
Colin Imber
1994
Islamic Law and Society
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34. Mahr: Legal Obligation or Rightful Demand?
Mona Siddiqui
1995
Journal of Islamic Studies
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35. Ethical Presuppositions of the Qur'ān
George Hourani
1980
The Muslim World
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36. Ethics in Medieval Islamic Philosophy
Charles Butterworth
1983
The Journal of Religious Ethics
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37. The Answers of Applied Islamology
Mohammed Arkoun
2007
Theory, Culture & Society
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Volume III: Worship and Ritual
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38. The Essence of Religious Experience in Islam
Isma'īl al-Fārūqī
1973
Numen
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39. The Aesthetic Reception of the Qur'ān as Reflected in Early Muslim History
Navid Kermani
2000
Literary Structures of Religious Meaning in the Qur'an
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40. Islām and Art
Ismaʻīl al-Fārūqī
1973
Studia Islamica
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A. Reinhart
1990
History of Religions
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42. The Ḥajj and the Study of Islamic Ritual
Marion Katz
2004
Studia Islamica
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43. Financial Worship: The Quranic Injunction to Almsgiving
Jonathan Benthall
1999
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, (N. S.)
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44. Eating and Fasting for God in Sufi Tradition
Valerie Hoffman
1995
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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45. Miracles in Šīʿī Thought: A Case-Study of the Miracles Attributed to Imām Ĝafar al-Ṣādiq
Judith Loebenstein
2003
Arabica
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46. Some Aspects of Mystical Prayer in Islam
Annemarie Schimmel
1952
Die Welt des Islams, New Series
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47. Rehearsed Spontaneity and the Conventionality of Ritual: Disciplines of Salāt
Saba Mahmood
2001
American Ethnologist
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48. On Scriptural Essentialism and Ritual Variation: Muslim Sacrifice in Sumatra and Morocco
John Bowen
1992
American Ethnologist
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49. The Birth of the Prophet: Ritual and Gender in Turkish Islam
Nancy Tapper | Richard Tapper
1987
Man
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50. Women, Saints, and Sanctuaries
Fatima Mernissi
1977
Signs
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51. Mazar Festivals of the Uyghurs: Music, Islam and the Chinese State
Rachel Harris | Rahilä Dawut
2002
British Journal of Ethnomusicology
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52. Death, Funeral Processions, and the Articulation of Religious Authority in Early Islam
Muhammad Zaman
2001
Studia Islamica
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Volume IV: Gender and Politics
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53. Women and Ḥadīth Transmission Two Case Studies from Mamluk Damascus
Asma Sayeed
2002
Studia Islamica
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54. Disciplining Wives: A Historical Reading of Qur'ân 4:34
Manuela Marín
2003
Studia Islamica
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55. Muftīs and Matrimony: Islamic Law and Gender in Ottoman Syria and Palestine
Judith Tucker
1994
Islamic Law and Society
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56. Women in the Afterlife: The Islamic View as Seen from Qur'ān and Tradition
Jane Smith | Yvonne Haddad
1975
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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57. Islamic Feminism and Its Discontents: Toward a Resolution of the Debate
Valentine Moghadam
2002
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
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58. Gendered Transformations: Beauty, Love, and Sexuality in Qajar Iran
Afsaneh Najmabadi
2001
Iranian Studies
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59. Internationalizing the Conversation on Women's Rights: Arab Countries Face the CEDAW Committee
Ann Mayer
2004
Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modernity
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60. Exploited by Whom? An Alternative Perspective on Humanitarian Assistance to Afghan Women
Sultan Barakat | Gareth Wardell
2002
Third World Quarterly
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61. The Saudi Public Speaks: Religion, Gender, and Politics
Mansoor Moaddel
2006
International Journal of Middle East Studies
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62. The Golden Age: The Political Concepts of Islam
Ira Lapidus
1992
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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63. The Origins and Objectives of Islamic Revivalist Thought, 1750–1850
Ahmad Dallal
1993
Journal of the American Oriental Society
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64. Rhetoric, Discourse, and the Future of Hope
Richard Bulliet
2003
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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65. Public Islam and the Problem of Democratization
Robert Hefner
2001
Sociology of Religion
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66. Three Islamic Strands in the South African Struggle for Justice
Farid Esack
1988
Third World Quarterly
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Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
2004
International Sociology
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68. Globalization and the Politics of Religious Knowledge: Pluralizing Authority in the Muslim World
Peter Mandaville
2007
Theory, Culture & Society
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