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Understanding Islam : positions of knowledge
- Title
- Understanding Islam : positions of knowledge / Bryan S. Turner.
- Author
- Turner, Bryan S.
- Publication
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2023]
- ©2023
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Details
- Description
- vii, 197 pages; 19 cm.
- Summary
- Can we understand a religion without believing and practicing it? Can we have knowledge about faith? Can people understand those different from themselves? Can outsiders ever understand the world of insiders? Examining insider and outsider positions of knowledge Bryan S. Turner explores what understanding Islam entails. He argues that understanding Islam has in recent years been dominated by political events – the Iran Hostage crisis, the fall of the Iranian Shah, 9/11, Afghanistan and the foreign policy of Donald Trump – leading to western intellectuals and public figures, many of whom know nothing about Islam, suddenly becoming experts. Turner asks how they, or how anyone, can have the authority to speak on this subject. He brilliantly elucidates the questions and problems involved in the challenge of understanding religion.
- Series Statement
- Globalised Muslim societies
- Uniform Title
- Globalised Muslim societies
- Subject
- Islam
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: What is Understanding? -- 1. The Changing World of Islam -- 2. Insiders and Outsiders -- 3. The Rise of the Sociology of Islam -- 4. Postmodernism, Globalisation and Religion -- 5. Orientalism and Islam -- 6. Islamophobia -- 7. Feminism, Fertility and Piety -- 8. The Problems of Positionality -- 9. The Possibility of Dialogue.
- ISBN
- 9781474498746
- 1474498744
- OCLC
- on1293847135
- SCSB-14494669
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library