Identity, Politics and the Study of Islam
Equinox Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78179-488-3 (ISBN)
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Based partly on a series of posts coming out of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion blog, this volume includes greatly expanded essays by Ruth Mas, Sarah Imhoff and James Crossley as well as new pieces by Devin Stewart, Carlos Segovia, Alexandre Caeiro and Emmanuelle Stefanidis, Russell McCutcheon and Salman Sayyid. This volume, thus, brings together a variety of scholars both inside and outside of Islamic Studies in order to grapple with such questions as: what, if anything, is unique about Islamic Studies? How should Islamic studies as religious studies engage with postcolonial critique? What is the role of identity politics in such endeavors? What are the lines between descriptive (hermeneutic) work and theoretical explanations of Islamic texts? What can scholars in related areas, such as the study of Judaism and early Christianity, offer to this conversation by way of analogy? Can ethical, political, or theological concerns function critically to help theorize Islam? The volume is divided into four sections: Theory and Identity Politics in the Study of Islam, which looks at the role of identity, knowledge production, and political commitments among scholars of Islam; Critique and Identity in Qur'anic Studies, which deals with challenges in applying critical-historical methods to the study of the Qur'an and how these methods relate to some of the issues raised Omid Safi and Aaron Hughes; Comparative Views from Outside Islamic Studies, which provides a comparative view of how scholars have dealt with similar concerns in the study of Judaism and Christianity; and A Critical Appraisal, which offers a direct challenge to Safi and Hughes.
Matt Sheedy received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies at the University of Manitoba (2015), Winnipeg, and is co-editor of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion blog and Religion Compass. His research interests include critical social theory, theories of secularism, as well as representations of Christianity, Islam, and Native traditions in popular and political culture.
Introduction
Identity, Apologetics, and the Shapes of Critique in the Study of Islam
Matt Sheedy
Theory and Identity Politics in the Study of Islam
1. The Modesty of Theory
Ruth Mas (Freie Universitaet Berlin)
2. "I Want My Discipline Back"
Salman Sayyid (University of Leeds)
Critique and Identity in Qur'an Studies
3. Religion, History, Ethics: Rethinking the Crisis of Western Qur'anic Studies
Alexandre Caeiro (Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies) and Emmanuelle Stefanidis (Universite Paris Sorbonne)
4. Identity Politics and Scholarship in the Study of Islamic Origins: The Inscriptions of the Dome of the Rock as a Test Case
Carlos A. Segovia (St Louis University, Madrid and Camilo Jose Cela University, Madrid)
Comparative Views from Outside Islamic Studies
5. Jews, Jewish Studies, and the Study of Islam
Sarah Imhoff (Indiana University)
6. The Quest for the Historical: Can Biblical Studies Lead Qur'anic Studies away from Theology?
James Crossley (St Marys University, London)
A Critical Appraisal
7. Old Islamic Studies, or a Public Service Announcement
Devin Stewart (Emory University)
Afterword
The Meaning and End of Scholarship on Religion
Russell T. McCutcheon (University of Alabama)
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.10.2018 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Culture on the Edge: Studies in Identity Formation |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 2757 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78179-488-X / 178179488X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78179-488-3 / 9781781794883 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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