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Teaching Humanity : An Alternative Introduction to Islam / / Vernon James Schubel
| Teaching Humanity : An Alternative Introduction to Islam / / Vernon James Schubel |
| Autore | Schubel Vernon James <1953-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Macmillan Palgrave, Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 pages) |
| Disciplina | 297 |
| Soggetto topico |
Ethnology - Middle East
Islam - History Islam - Study and teaching Qur'an Qur'an - Hermeneutics |
| ISBN |
9783031223624
9783031223617 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1 Introduction: Teaching Humanity—Islam as a Humanistic Tradition -- Islam as a Humanistic Tradition -- Defining Humanism and the Humanities -- Orientalism and the Study of Islam -- Islam as a Legalistic Tradition -- Three Men and an Elephant: Describing Islam -- Islam: The Straight Path, or Is It? -- Islam or Islam(s)?: Accounting for Islamic Diversity -- Talal Asad: Islam as a Discursive Tradition -- Shahab Ahmed and the Critique of Asad -- The “Pre-Text” -- The “Con-Text”: The Product of Engagement -- Islam as an Affective Tradition -- Challenging Textual Essentialism -- Moving Beyond the Text: There Is a Reason They Call It Folk Wisdom Teaching Humanity: An Alternative Introduction to Islam -- Questions for Discussion -- 2 Islam’s Diverse Paths, Part One: Patterns of Belief -- Defining Islam -- Islam’s Diverse Paths -- Islam: A Man and A Book -- Islam: Unity in Diversity -- Usul al-Din: The Roots of Religion -- Tawhid: The Unity of God -- Mansur Al-Hallaj: The Secret of Ana al-Haqq -- Nubuwwa: Belief in Prophets -- A Brief Outline of the Life of the Historical Muhammad -- Following Muhammad: The Prophet as a Model for Later Generations Qiyama: Belief in the Day of Judgment -- Conclusion -- Questions for Discussion -- 3 Islam’s Diverse Paths, Part Two: Patterns of Practice and Identity -- The Path of “Law”: The Shariʿa -- ʿIbadat and Muʿamalat: Shariʿa as Ritual and Social Practice -- Muʿamalat: Shariʿa as Social Practice -- Shariʿa: Islamic Law? -- The Path of Morality and Etiquette: Akhlaq and Adab -- Paths of Love: Mahabba and ʿIshq -- Walking the Path of Love: The Story of Layla and Majnun -- Islam’s Diverse Communities: Shiʿa, Sunni, and Sufi -- The Force of History: From Saqifa to Karbala -- A Man and a Book: Accounting for Sunni and Shiʿi Islam -- Shiʿi Islam: The Path of Devotional Allegiance -- Shiʿi Islam’s Diverse Paths -- Sunni Islam: The Islam of the Sunna and the Community -- Belief in the Awliyaʾ Allah: The Sufi Tradition -- Wahdat al-Wujud and the Sufi Tradition -- Conclusion: Islam as a Humanistic Tradition -- Questions for Discussion -- 4 Teaching Humanity: The Human Being as the Object and Means of Revelation in Islamic Piety -- Approaching the Qurʾan -- The Qurʾan as Sacred Presence -- The Form and Content of the Qurʾan -- Qurʾanic Verses: Affirmations of Tawhid and Qiyama -- Qurʾanic Verses: Practice and Ethics -- Qurʾanic Verses: Narratives -- Interpreting the Qurʾan -- Muhkamat and Mutashabihat Verses -- Teachers of Humanity: Prophets, Imams, and Awliyaʾ -- Adam in the Qurʾan -- Iblis and Adam in the Qurʾan -- Mansur al-Hallaj and the Creation of Adam -- The Alevi Understanding of the Adam and Iblis Story -- The Narrative of Khidr and Musa -- Conclusion: Humanity in the Qurʾan -- Questions for Discussion -- 5 Patterns of Devotional Allegiance: God’s Friends (Awliyaʾ Allah) and Perfected Persons (al-Insan al-Kamil) -- Devotional Allegiance to the Prophet Muhammad -- Love and Devotional Allegiance to the Prophet Muhammad -- Love and Devotion for ʿAli b. Abu Talib -- Karbala: Shiʿi Islam’s Spiritual Fulcrum -- Karbala as a Meme -- Karbala as a Root Paradigm -- Victor Turner on Human Nature: Communitas and Structure -- Etic and Emic -- Devotional Allegiance in the Sufi Tradition -- The Story of Baba Farid Shakr Ganj and Mullah Sahab -- Interpretation -- Ahmet Yesevi in the Vilayetname -- The Proclamation of the Praiseworthy Qualities of Hoca Ahmet Yesevi Hezretleri Analysis -- Conclusion -- Questions for Discussion -- 6 My Qibla Is a Man: Islam Beyond the Shariʿa -- Defining Alevilik -- The Nature of Alevi Religion -- Alevilik as Shiʿi Piety -- Alevilik as a Sufi Tradition -- The Cem -- The Origin of the Cem in the Miraç of the Prophet -- Contemporary Alevilik -- Urban Cems and Cem Evis -- Alevi Music and Performance -- The Saz and the Minaret -- Contemporary Alevi Literature -- Narratives from the Vilayetname -- The Narrative of the Lineage and Birth of Hacı Bektaş in the Vilayetname -- The Vilayetname as an Islamic Text -- The Narrative of Güvenç Abdal -- My Qibla is a Man: Islam Beyond the Law -- Questions for Discussion -- 7 Conclusion: Not an Excess of Religion, But a Lack of Humanity—In Search of “Mainstream Islam” -- Radical Muslims and Muslim Extremists -- How to Write About Muslims -- Islam and Humanity -- The “Reformers” and Their Legacy -- In Search of “Mainstream” Islam -- “I Created Everything for You and You for Me:” An Alternative View of Islam -- Creating Insan al-Kamil: The End of Humanity -- “Mainstream Islam” and Shari‘a -- “Mainstream Islam” and Modernity -- Conclusion -- Questions for Discussion -- Glossary -- Bibliography. |
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| Cham, Switzerland : , : Macmillan Palgrave, Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023] | ||
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Soggetto topico
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Ethnology - Middle East
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- Middle Eastern Culture (3)
- Ethnology (2)
- Islam (2)
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