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Islam and the Tyranny of Authenticity
Aaron W. Hughes
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Description for Islam and the Tyranny of Authenticity
Hardback. This book provides a hard-hitting examination of the spiritual motivations, rhetorical moves, and political implications associated with apologetical discourses. It argues that what is at stake is relevance, and examines the consequences of engaging in mythopoesis as opposed to scholarship. Num Pages: 164 pages. BIC Classification: HRH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 161 x 241 x 15. Weight in Grams: 396.
Many scholars of Islam are interested in creating a liberal, inclusive, pluralistic, feminist, and modern version of the religion that they believe to be explicit in the pages of the Qur'an, but missed by earlier interpreters. In so doing, they create "good" Islam and, in the process, seek to define what does and does not get to count as authentic. As the purveyors of what they now believe to be veritable Islam, they subsequently claim that rival presentations are bastardizations based either on Orientalism and Islamophobia (if one is a non-Muslim) or misogyny and homophobia (if one is a Muslim ... Read more
Many scholars of Islam are interested in creating a liberal, inclusive, pluralistic, feminist, and modern version of the religion that they believe to be explicit in the pages of the Qur'an, but missed by earlier interpreters. In so doing, they create "good" Islam and, in the process, seek to define what does and does not get to count as authentic. As the purveyors of what they now believe to be veritable Islam, they subsequently claim that rival presentations are bastardizations based either on Orientalism and Islamophobia (if one is a non-Muslim) or misogyny and homophobia (if one is a Muslim ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
164
Condition
New
Number of Pages
164
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781792162
SKU
V9781781792162
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About Aaron W. Hughes
Aaron W. Hughes holds the Philip S. Bernstein Chair in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester. He is the author 10 books and over 50 articles and book chapters.
Reviews for Islam and the Tyranny of Authenticity
Aaron Hughes's Islam and the Tyranny of Authenticity is but the most recent of his ongoing efforts to invite scholars of Islam to see their object of study as no more or less human than any other, suggesting that their methods should not only be comparable to those found in other sub-specialties but also that their field can be the ... Read more