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Creating the Qur’an : A Historical-Critical Study
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ISBN: 0520389042 9780520389045 Year: 2022 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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Creating the Qur’an presents the first systematic historical-critical study of the Qur’an’s origins, drawing on methods and perspectives commonly used to study other scriptural traditions. Demonstrating in detail that the Islamic tradition relates not a single attested account of the holy text’s formation, Stephen J. Shoemaker shows how the Qur’an preserves a surprisingly diverse array of memories regarding the text’s early history and its canonization. To this he adds perspectives from radiocarbon dating of manuscripts, the linguistic history of Arabic, the social and cultural history of late ancient Arabia, and the limitations of human memory and oral transmission, as well as various peculiarities of the Qur’anic text itself. Considering all the relevant data to present the most comprehensive and convincing examination of the origin and evolution of the Qur’an available, Shoemaker concludes that the canonical text of the Qur’an was most likely produced only around the turn of the eighth century.


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Thinking the Re-Thinking of the World : Decolonial Challenges to the Humanities and Social Sciences from Africa, Asia and the Middle East
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ISBN: 3110733196 3110738090 Year: 2022 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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As far too many intellectual histories and theoretical contributions from the ‘global South’ remain under-explored, this volume works towards redressing such imbalance. Experienced authors, from the regions concerned, along different disciplinary lines, and with a focus on different historical timeframes, sketch out their perspectives of envisaged transformations. This includes specific case studies and reflexive accounts from African, South Asian, and Middle Eastern contexts. Taking a critical stance on the ongoing dominance of Eurocentrism in academia, the authors present their contributions in relation to current decolonial challenges. Hereby, they consider intellectual, practical and structural aspects and dimensions, to mark and build their respective positions. From their particular vantage points of (trans)disciplinary and transregional engagement, they sketch out potential pathways for addressing the unfinished business of conceptual decolonization. The specific individual positionalities of the contributors, which are shaped by location and regional perspective as much as in disciplinary, biographical, linguistic, religious, and other terms, are hereby kept in view. Drawing on their significant experiences and insights gained in both the global north and global south, the contributors offer original and innovative models of engagement and theorizing frames that seek to restore and critically engage with intellectual practices from particular regions and transregional contexts in Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. This volume builds on a lecture series held at ZMO in the winter 2019-2020


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Rethinking Islam in Europe : Contemporary Approaches in Islamic Religious Education and Theology
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ISBN: 3110752417 3110752263 Year: 2022 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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Islamic theology had to wait a long time before being granted a place in the European universities. That happened above all in German-speaking areas, and this led to the development of new theological and religious pedagogical approaches. This volume presents one such approach and discusses it from various perspectives. It takes up different theological and religious pedagogical themes and reflects on them anew from the perspective of the contemporary context.The primary focus is on contemporary challenges and possible answers from the perspective of Islamic theology and religious pedagogy. It discusses general themes like the location of Islamic theology and religious pedagogy at secular European universities. The volume also explores concrete challenges, such as the extent to which Islamic religious pedagogy can be conceptualised anew, how it should deal with its own theological tradition in the contemporary context, and how a positive attitude towards worldview and religious plurality can be cultivated.At issue here are foundations of a new interpretation of Islam that takes into account both a reflective approach to the Islamic tradition and the contemporary context. In doing so, it gives Muslims the opportunity to take their own thinking further.


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New methods in the study of Islam
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ISBN: 1399503529 1399503510 1399503499 9781399503495 1399503502 Year: 2022 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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Methods play a key role in how we access and subsequently organise data. There is a tendency, however, for scholars to focus primarily on their data at the expense of the methodological acts that bring such data into existence in the first place. The academic study of Islam is certainly no different in this regard. Indeed, many continue to employ established or classic methods that often echo (neo-)orientalist and other political inclinations. This collection, in contrast, offers an alternative, providing a set of multi-disciplinary approaches that focus on how we create, study and disseminate 'Islamic data.'


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Palimpsests of Themselves : Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia
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ISBN: 0520975766 0520344650 9780520975767 Year: 2022 Publisher: [s.l.] : University of California Press,

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Palimpsests of Themselves is an intervention in current discussions about the fate of philosophy in postclassical Islamic intellectual history. Asad Q. Ahmed uses as a case study the most advanced logic textbook of Muslim South Asia, The Ladder of the Sciences, presenting in English its first full translation and extended commentary. He offers detailed assessments of the technical contributions of the work, explores the social and institutional settings of the vast commentarial response it elicited, and develops a theory of the philosophical commentary that is internal to the tradition. These approaches to the commentarial text complicate presuppositions upon which questions of Islam's intellectual decline are erected. As such, Ahmed offers a unique and powerful opportunity to understand the transmission of knowledge across the Islamic world.


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Jewish Muslims : how Christians imagined Islam as the enemy
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ISBN: 9780520344716 0520344715 Year: 2022 Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press,

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"Uncovering the hidden history of Islamophobia and its surprising connections to the long-standing hatred of Jews. Hatred of Jews and hatred of Muslims have been intertwined in Christian thought since the rise of Islam. In Jewish Muslims, David M. Freidenreich explores the history of this complex, perplexing, and emotionally fraught phenomenon. He makes the compelling case that, then and now, hate-mongers target 'them' in an effort to define 'us.' Analyzing anti-Muslim sentiment in texts and images produced across Europe and the Middle East over a thousand years, the author shows how Christians intentionally distorted reality by alleging that Muslims are just like Jews. They did so not only to justify assaults against Muslims on theological grounds but also to motivate fellow believers to live as 'good' Christians. The disdain premodern polemicists expressed for Islam and Judaism was never really about these religions. They sought to promote their own visions of Christianity--a dynamic that similarly animates portrayals of Muslims and Jews today"--


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The Qur'an
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ISBN: 9780748695768 0748695761 074869577X 9780748695775 9780748695782 9780748695799 0748695796 0748695788 Year: 2022 Publisher: Edinburgh

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This comprehensive introduction to the basic methods and current state of historical-critical Qur'anic scholarship covers all of the field's major questions, giving readers the tools needed to work with and understand this vital but complex text.


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An anthropology of the Qur'an
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ISBN: 1000469093 100320032X 1000469069 9781032060187 1032060182 1032052880 9781032052885 9781003200321 Year: 2022 Publisher: Abingdon Routledge

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This book presents an anthropological study of the Qur'an, offering an unprecedented challenge to some of the epistemological and metaphysical assumptions of the tawḥīdic discourses. Combining primary textual materials and anthropological analysis, this book examines transcendence as a core principle of the Qur'an, uniquely signified in the divine name al-Quddūs (the Holy). It shows how the tawḥīdic representations of Allah constitute an inversion of this attribute; examines how this inversion has been conceived, authorized, and maintained; and demonstrates how it has affected Islamic thinking and practices, especially as relates to authority. This book also explores how a return to the Qur'anic primacy of God's otherness as al-Quddus can influence Islamic thinking and practices moving forward. Therefore, it will be highly useful to scholars of Islamic Studies, philosophical theology, Qur'anic studies, political science, ethics, Anthropology and religious studies.


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DisAbility in der Migrationsgesellschaft : Betrachtungen an der Intersektion von Behinderung, Kultur und Religion in Bildungskontexten
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ISBN: 3781559378 3781524973 Year: 2022 Publisher: Bad Heilbrunn Verlag Julius Klinkhardt

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The anthology brings together interdisciplinary theoretical and empirical findings on disAbility and migration in educational contexts as well as analyses of the intersectionality of disability, migration and religion in education and society. It strives to interconnect the concerns of migration education, disability studies, and religious education. In doing so, theorizations about narratives of belonging in the migration society as well as possibilities of participation in medical-therapeutic and pedagogical fields of action are carried out. In addition, questions are asked about the necessary competencies of pedagogically active persons. Special attention is paid to research contexts that focus on the perspectives of children and adolescents with disabilities and their parents. Der Sammelband bringt interdisziplinär theoretische und empirische Erkenntnisse zu DisAbility und Migration in Bildungskontexten sowie Analysen der Intersektionalität von Behinderung, Migration und Religion in Bildung und Gesellschaft zusammen. Er sucht nach Vernetzungen der Anliegen der Migrationspädagogik, Disability-Studies und Religionspädagogik. Dabei werden Theoretisierungen über Zugehörigkeitsnarrative der Migrationsgesellschaft sowie Partizipationsmöglichkeiten in medizinisch-therapeutischen und pädagogischen Handlungsfeldern vollzogen. Zudem wird nach notwendigen Kompetenzen pädagogisch Handelnder gefragt. Ein besonderes Augenmerk richtet sich auf Forschungskontexte, die Subjektperspektiven von Kindern und Jugendlichen mit Behinderung sowie ihrer Eltern in den Blick nehmen.

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