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Reasoning with God
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<span><span>In </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Reasoning with God</span><span> renowned Islamic scholar Khaled Abou El Fadl explores the role of Shari'ah</span><span style=""font-style:italic;""> </span><span>in today's world, for both Muslims and non-Muslims. After a prologue that explains Shari'ah in depth, Abou El Fadl wrestles with the moral trajectory of contemporary Islam and highlights the way Shari'ah can revitalize and reengage Islam today.</span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>
| Title |
Reasoning with God : reclaiming Shari'ah in the modern age / Khaled Abou El Fadl. |
|---|---|
| Publisher |
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Creation Date |
2014 |
| Notes |
Includes index. English |
| Content |
Contents Author's Note Preface Acknowledgments An Introduction to Shari'ah What Is Shari'ah? What Is Islamic law? The Difference between Islamic Law and Muslim Law The Sources of Islamic Law The Nature and Purpose of Islamic Law The Difference between Shari'ah and Fiqh The Sacred and Profane in Islamic Law The Rights of God and the Rights of Humans Modernity and the Deterioration of Islamic Law Part I: The Islamic Dream and the Chaos of the Modern Condition 1 Genesis: Negotiating the Muslim and the Islamic Growing Up with the Islamic Dream The Nightmare of 9/11 and Its AftermathWaking Up to the Truth 2 Awakening: Reasonableness and Islam The Plight of Modern Muslims Islam as a Complete Way of Life and the Reality of Realization The Modern Challenge of Islamicity Reasonableness, Socialization, and Contemporary Islamic Law Musings on the Absurd 3 Crisis: Making Sense of Shari'ah Today Practicing the Pedantic and the Politics of Affectation Muslims in the West as a Microcosm 4 Repose: The Islamic between Harmony and Dissonance Affectation as Public Performance Stereotyped Forms and the Practice of Islamic Law Nature of Authority in Islamic Law and ChaosThe Music of Shari'ah, Silence of Tradition, and Dissonance of Modernity The Dream Revisited Part II: The Culture of Ugliness and the Plight of Modern Islam 5 Faulty Paradigms in Constructing the Islamic The Recurrence of the Ugly in Modern Islam The Muslim Response and Western Vilifications The Origins of Western Hate The Clash of Civilizations Thesis as an Explanation Clash of Civilizations and the Expression of Prejudice The Banality of Ugliness and the Dialectics of Sin Islam, Cruelty, and Modernity 6 Beyond Islamophobia The Jahiliyya of Modern IgnoranceThe Imperative of Empathetic Knowing The Critical Imperative Islamophobia and the Danger to the World 7 God the Universal Muslim Self-Criticism between Universalism and Exceptionalism The Universality of Ugliness and Beauty Universal Mercy and Extreme Acts of Ugliness 8 What Really Went Wrong Postcolonialism and the Rise of Modern Apologetics Wahhabism: The Puritans of Islam Muhammad bin 'Abd al-Wahhab: The Founder and His Thought Why Did Wahhabism Survive and Spread? The Salafis 9 God, Shari'ah, and Beauty Puritanical-Salafism, the Authoritarian Specter, and Social DeathClassical Music and the Qur'an Submitting to Infinite Divinity Part III: Reclaiming Shari'ah in the Modern Age 10 Shari'ah as Reasoning with God The Shari'ah Predicament Shari'ah: Between Objectivity and Subjectivity Do We Need Shari'ah? Reasoning with God Shari'ah and Virtue Islamic Law and Reasonableness 11 Beyond a Reasonable Shari'ah Beyond Reasonableness: An Ethical Approach to Shari'ah Godliness and Godlessness Shari'ah and Seeking Godliness 12 The Caliphate of Humanity On Cursing the Devil and Other Memories |
| Extent |
1 online resource (557 p.) |
| Language |
English |
| Copyright Date |
©2014 |
| National Library system number |
997012334640005171 |
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