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The construction of belief : reflections on the thought of Mohammed Arkoun
- Title
- The construction of belief : reflections on the thought of Mohammed Arkoun / edited by Abdou Filali-Ansary and Aziz Esmail.
- Publication
- London : Saqi : The Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, 2012.
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- Description
- 220 p. : ill., port.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- This Festschrift honours Arkoun's scholarship, bringing together the contributions of eleven scholars of history, religious studies and philosophy. It offers a comprehensive selection of critical engagements with Arkoun's work, reflecting on his influence on contemporary thinking about Islam and its ideological, philosophical and theological dimensions.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Professor Mohammed Arkoun (1928-2010) -- Preface : situating Arkoun / Abdou Filali-Ansary -- Mohammed Arkoun : a personal tribute and an intellectual assessment / Aziz Esmail -- The authenticity of sacred texts / R. Stephen Humphreys -- Constructing Islam in the "classical" period : maqalat literature and the seventy-two sects / Josef van Ess -- Modern discourses of superiority : Muslims and Christians in contact / Stefan Wild -- The political, social and economic construction of understanding : an essay in analysis of the disruptive / Mark Sedgwick -- Believing and belonging : the impact of religion for "Muslim" adolescents in a pluralistic society : empirical findings from Hamburg, Germany / Ursula Günther -- Veiling and unveiling Muslim women : state coercion, Islam and the "disciplines of the heart" / Malika Zeghal -- Coming to believe : the (elusive) time of conversion / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- The shadow of terror on distant Muslims / Akeel Bilgrami -- Citational exegesis of the Qur'an : towards a theoretical framework for the construction of meaning in classical Islamic thought : the case of the Epistles of the pure brethren (Rasāʼil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ) / Omar Ali-de-Unzaga.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-2667
- ISBN
- 9780863564246 (hbk.)
- 0863564240 (hbk.)
- OCLC
- 811250035
- Title
- The construction of belief : reflections on the thought of Mohammed Arkoun / edited by Abdou Filali-Ansary and Aziz Esmail.
- Imprint
- London : Saqi : The Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, 2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Filali-Ansary, Abdou.Esmail, Aziz.Aga Khan University. Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-2667