...? These questions define the method that structures the essay's argument. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 orientalism Islam Shahab Ahmed anthropology of Islam Islamic metaphysics Islamic philosophy French imperialism Concluding What Is Islam? , Shahab Ahmed defines Islam...

...Christian Knirsch For the past decades, public discourse on veils in Western societies has mainly focused on the Islamic veil. In the Western history of thought, however, veils have frequently been used as symbols in epistemological contexts, too, both in literary and in theoretical primary texts...

... memoirs. All Islamic countries on “Greek cosmological and metaphysical and indeed all Oriental nations, without excep- thought” and not on “true religious thought.” tion, are situated in a phase of history in which, With Renaissance humanism, humanity was contrary to their Western counterparts...

... by the exer- (d. 1204) was developing a metaphysical construct cise of reason, revelation being just a starting point for indistinguishable from the Islamic model (pp. 53-54). the voyage of discovery. “The entire enterprise of Despite these borrowings, Amin maintains, Christian Islamic...

... dantic thought was too cold, its metaphysical system  Thought in Islam, ed. M. Saeed Sheikh (Lahore: Insti- too “extreme” and “sublime” for his purpose. Farzana...

... this a step further, he also asks, “Is Orientalism Islamic” according to this framework too, then? As Meziane points out, Ahmed's discussion of Islam is ultimately as much an engagement with metaphysics as it is with realism, even if Ahmed fundamentally ignores the former. Indeed, Meziane argues...

...Yunus Doğan Telliel Abstract This essay introduces a special section on Islam and evidence with contributions by Ana Maria Vinea, Junaid Quadri, and Yunus Doğan Telliel, and an afterword by Alireza Doostdar. The contributors examine evidential inquiries in Islamic law, healing practices...

... by examining the emergence of Piety, Mahmood argues that, in the context of of new Islamicized imaginings of political and contemporary Egyptian Muslim devotional move- social engagement: twentieth-­century hajj narra- ments, embodied ritual practice is itself capable...

...- is no disputing that initially, Islamic theology, ani- Siba Grovogui • Practices and Metaphysics of Knowledge 229 mism, and other endogenous systems of thought devoted much attention to the conditions of moral competed to provide the linguistic, cultural...

... Soundscape ; Mahmood, Politics of Piety. 50. See Daston, “The Moral Economy” ; Daston and Galison, Objectivity ; and Shapin, A Social History . For a rare example of a discussion of scientific virtues in relation to Islam, see Doostdar, The Iranian Metaphysicals . 51. See note 4...

... that this radical religious fundamentalism of his theses is accomplished by direct inference and constitutes, (a) a call for the destruction of the his- derivation from the self-evident truths of the Koran tory of Islamic metaphysics in order to put Muslims and Sunna themselves. Here, in addition...

.... They and conferences, fund-raise according to mod- and Exile do not need to Islamicize the space in order to ern methods, in short, function as effectively as Walid...

... their own political purpose.92 Islamic tradition to learn that the normative separation of reli- must be historicized and deconstructed. For gion and politics is neither possible nor desir- such a thin progressive humanist religion serves able. In a “post-­metaphysical...

... Neoplatonists (who im- which has a philosophical, even metaphysical basis in a ported Hellenistic tenets) and Arabic thinkers, such as doctrine to be found in a very ancient school (circa 500 al-Ash’ari, al-Farabi, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Ibn Rushd BCE) in India: a doctrine known as Anekanta-vada...

... domain. 2 For both thinkers, it was this fundamental and indeed metaphysical fissure that had allowed idolatrous nationalisms to emerge around the world and what continued to enable the ongoing and tyrannical reality of colonial oppression. Europe, far from escaping this process, was in fact its first...

... will and responsibility are 1991 at Islamabad, Pakistan. utterly metaphysical and not ethical in the Weberian ** Ziaul Haque [b. 19361 took his M. A.. (Economics) from the sense (1981: 18-19, 45-57). In his synthesis of Sindh University in 1%3; M. A.. (Arabic and Islamic Studies) from...

... in that process in which Islam played a formative—yet also fading—role. Jin's characterization of Islamic doctrine as something more than metaphysics matches the argument Liu Chun would make in The Huihui National Question that Islam, despite being a religion, was not centered on superstitious beliefs...

...Vasant Kaiwar Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1992 Sourh Asia Bulletin, Vol. XI1 No. 2, Fall 1992. Science, Capitalism, and Islam Vasant Kaiwar Muslim society, bullied by the military might of science has “no epirtemologicalstanding CIS s&nce.”S the West, pushed...

... economics deals with ab- services to Islam. This was followed in February 1985, by stract religious notions, theological and metaphysical con- ‘national’ elections when capitalists, landlords, bureaucrats cepts of medieval categories of mudarubu, ribu, zaAat, ushr, (civil and military) and priests...

... work (1422) as a prototype for his Sham’. 30 For a discussion of these key philosophic terms see Toshihiko Izutsu, “Basic Structure of Metaphysical Thinking in Islam,” in Creutiun and the Tihs older of l?tings: Essays in Islamu Mystical philosq@y (Ashland: White Cloud Press, 1994), pp. 1-38...