LEADER 04033nam 2200805Ia 450 001 9910821885203321 005 20220204025645.0 010 $a0-8232-5188-8 010 $a0-8232-5291-4 010 $a0-8232-5124-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823251889 035 $a(CKB)3170000000060591 035 $a(EBL)3239806 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000938527 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11613763 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000938527 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10920259 035 $a(PQKB)10334723 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000173352 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239806 035 $a(OCoLC)846997935 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse22171 035 $a(DE-B1597)554984 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823251889 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239806 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10687099 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4704629 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30251507 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30251507 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000060591 100 $a20121214d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIslam and the challenge of civilization$b[electronic resource] /$fAbdelwahab Meddeb ; translated by Jane Kuntz 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (192 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8232-5123-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPrologue: Religion and Violence --$t1. The Koran as Myth --$t2. The Clash of Interpretations --$t3. On the Arab Decline --$t4. Civilization or Extinction --$t5. Enlightenment between High and Low Voltage --$t6. The Physics and Metaphysics of Nature --$tEpilogue: Religion and Cosmopolitics --$tAppendix A: The veil unveiled: dialogue with Christian Jambet --$tAppendix B: Obama in Cairo --$tNotes 330 $aAbdelwahab Meddeb makes an urgent case for an Islamic reformation, located squarely in Western Europe, now home to millions of Muslims, where Christianity and Judaism have come to coexist with secular humanism and positivist law. He is not advocating ?moderate? Islam, which he characterizes as thinly disguised Wahabism, but rather an Islam inspired by the great Sufi thinkers, whose practice of religion was not bound by doctrine. To accomplish this, Meddeb returns to the doctrinal question of the text as transcription of the uncreated word of God and calls upon Muslims to distinguish between Islam?s spiritual message and the temporal, material, and historically grounded origins of its founding scriptures. He contrasts periods of Islamic history?when philosophers and theologians engaged in lively dialogue with other faiths and civilizations and contributed to transmitting the Hellenistic tradition to early modern Europe?with modern Islam?s collective amnesia of this past. Meddeb wages a war of interpretations in this book, in his attempt to demonstrate that Muslims cannot join the concert of nations unless they set aside outmoded notions such as jihad and realize that feuding among the monotheisms must give way to the more important issue of what it means to be a citizen in today?s postreligious global setting. 606 $aIslam$y21st century 606 $aIslamic civilization 606 $aMuslims$zNon-Muslim countries 606 $aIslamic renewal 610 $aIbn Arabi. 610 $aKoran. 610 $aSufism. 610 $aijtihad. 610 $aislam. 610 $ajihad. 610 $amonotheism. 615 0$aIslam 615 0$aIslamic civilization. 615 0$aMuslims 615 0$aIslamic renewal. 676 $a297.2/709051 700 $aMeddeb$b Abdelwahab$0443216 701 $aKuntz$b Jane$01684969 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821885203321 996 $aIslam and the challenge of civilization$94056754 997 $aUNINA