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Asma Afsaruddin - CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN ISLAM - 9780748632770 - V9780748632770
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CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN ISLAM

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Description for CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN ISLAM Paperback. Discussing the issues in Islam including Shari'a, jihad, politics, gender and interfaith relations, this book challenges the "clash of civilisations" thesis by identifying shared, universal values that are retrievable from a historicised investigation of the Islamic past and its connection. Series: The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 234 x 16. Weight in Grams: 370.
This book discusses key issues in Islam today including Shari'a, jihad, politics, gender and interfaith relations. This book deals with certain hot button contemporary issues in Islam that are often the focus of public scrutiny, including the Shari'a, jihad, the caliphate, women's status, and interfaith relations. Notably, it places the discussion of these topics within a longer historical framework in order to reveal their multiple interpretations and contested applications over time. Most public - and occasionally academic - discourses in the West present the Islamic tradition as unchanging and therefore unable to respond to the modern world. Such ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748632770
SKU
V9780748632770
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About Asma Afsaruddin
Asma Afsaruddin is Professor of Islamic Studies and Chairperson of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Reviews for CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN ISLAM
This long after 9/11, Western public discourse about Islam appears to be getting (if possible) even less subtle and nuanced than ever before. Complex questions about context, power and history are increasingly shunned in favour of simpler and simpler questions about Islam's timeless essence. Asma Afsaruddin reminds us in this learned and timely book that only a longer historical view ... Read more

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