Rethinking Islamic studies from orientalism to cosmopolitanism / [electronic resource] :
edited by Carl W. Ernst and Richard C. Martin.
- Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 2010.
- 410 p. : Grayscale Illustration, Tables ; ## cm.
- Studies in comparative religion. .
- ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
Part 1 Rethinking Modernity Islamic Perspectives -- Part 2 Rethinking Religion Social Scientific and Humanistic Perspectives -- Part 3 Rethinking the Subject Asian Perspectives. Introduction: Toward a Post-Orientalist Approach to Islamix Religious Studies -- Reasons Public and Divine: Liberal Democracy, Shari‘a Fundamentalism, and the Epistemological Crisis of Islam -- The Misrecognition of a Modern Islamist Organization: Germany Faces “Fundamentalism” -- Between “Ijtihad of the Presupposition” and Gender Equality: Cross-Pollination between Progressive Islam and Iranian Reform -- Fundamentalism and the Transparency of the Arabic Quran -- Can We Define “True” Islam? African American Muslim Women Respond to Transnational Muslim Identities -- Who Are the Islamists? -- Sufism, Exemplary Lives, and Social Science in Pakistan -- Formations of Orthodoxy: Authority, Power, and Networks in Muslim Societies -- Caught between Enlightenment and Romanticism: On the Complex Relation of Religious, Ethnic, and Civic Identity in a Modern “Museum Culture” -- The Subject and the Ostensible Subject: Mapping the Genre of Hagiography among South Asian Chishtis -- Dancing with Khusro: Gender Ambiguities and Poetic Performance in a Delhi Dargah -- The Perils of Civilizational Islam in Malaysia -- History and Normativity in Traditional Indian Muslim Thought: Reading Shari a in the Hermeneutics of Qari Muhammad Tayyab (d. 1983) -- Afterword: Competing Genealogies of Muslim Cosmopolitanism.