Title Critique of Religious Discourse

Published New Haven : Yale University Press Jan. 2018

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Description 1 online resource Series World Thought in Translation Ser World Thought in Translation Ser Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- An Introduction to His Life and Work -- Critique of Religious Discourse -- Introduction -- 1. Contemporary Religious Discourse: Its Strategies and Intellectual Premises -- First: The Strategies Used in the Discourse -- Conflating Ideas and Religion -- Explaining All Phenomena by Reference to One Starting Point -- Reliance on the Authority of Tradition and the Early Muslims -- Intellectual Dogmatism -- Dismissing the Historical Dimension -- Second: The Intellectual Premises -- Divine Sovereignty -- The Text and Nass -- 2. Tradition Interpreted or Colored: A Reading of the Project of the Islamic Left -- Interpretation: The Linguistic Sense and the Technical Sense -- Coloring: A Tendentious Reading -- Productive Readings -- The Islamic Left and the Priorities of Religious Discourse -- The Past and the Present: The Root and the Branch -- Tradition: A Construct of Consciousness or a Historical Construct -- Tradition: Rebuilding or a Fresh Coat of Paint -- The Texts: Interpretation or Coloring -- Syncretism: Success and Failure -- 3. Reading Religious Texts: An Exploratory Study of Types of Meaning -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z Summary Annotation An important work of contemporary Islamic thought argues against the programmatic use of Islamic religious texts to support fundamentalist beliefsFirst published in Arabic in 1994, progressive Muslim scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd's controversial essay argued that conventional fundamentalist interpretations of the Quran and other Islamic religious texts are ahistorical and misleading. Conservative religious leaders accused him of apostasy. Marking the first time a work by Abu Zayd is available in its entirety in any Western language, this English edition makes his erudite interpretation of classical Islamic thought accessible to a wider audience at a critical historical moment Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Audience Scholarly & Professional Yale University Press Subject Shāfiʻī, Muḥammad ibn Idrīs, 767 or 768-820 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Shāfiʻī, Muḥammad ibn Idrīs, 767 or 768-820. fast (OCoLC)fst01846928 Qurʼan -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85072959 Qurʼan. fast (OCoLC)fst01842877 Subject Islam -- Study and teaching -- Methodology RELIGION -- Islam -- General. Islam -- Study and teaching -- Methodology. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Wright, Jonathan Translator. Kersten, Carool Introduction by. ISBN 9780300207125 0300207123 9780300231458 0300231458

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