... thought contains profound and powerful critiques of modern political ideas and institutions, including nationalism. Writing in the context of the emergence of the new state of Pakistan and the onset of the cold war, Hashim's comparative approach presented Islamic political philosophy as a better...

... Albertini Tamara . “The Seductiveness of Certainty: The Destruction of Islam's Intellectual Legacy by the Fundamentalists.” Philosophy East and West 53 , no. 4 ( 2003 ): 455 – 70 . Alford Terry . Prince among Slaves . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2007 . Alidou Ousseina...

...? 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...

... Noire , 1954 . Corbin Henry . History of Islamic Philosophy . Translated by Sherrard Liadain . London : Kegan Paul International , 1993 . Dallal Ahmad . “Appropriating the Past: Twentieth-Century Reconstruction of Pre-Modern Islamic Thought.” Islamic Law and Society 7...

... the Middle East (Stanford University Islamic Philosophy series of Oxford University Press Press, 2016). and senior editor of Critical Muslim; in the past he has served as a standing faculty member at Brown and at Mamadou Diouf is the Leitner Family Professor of Af- the University of Pennsylvania. His...

... culture or among premodern elite circles of Muslims by contrast? Ahmed is also interested in the broader cultural implications of this question: how might we understand the significance of what is “Islamic” when reading “Islamic philosophy,” he asks. Or poetry? Likewise, what is “Islamic” about “Islamic...

... . New York : Columbia University Press , 2009 . Hirschkind Charles . The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics . New York : Columbia University Press , 2006 . Janssens Jules . “ ‘Experience’ (tajriba) in Classical Arabic Philosophy (al-Farabi-Avicenna...

... of the “Islamicization” and “indigenization” of European discourses of science in Iran. In a regional conjuncture where both secularist and Islamist revolutionary activism risks furthering authoritarianism as in Egypt and Morocco, or military interventions and civil wars as in Syria and Libya, Tabatabai pessimistically...

... philosophy, and African philosophy. African Town (University of California Press, 1992). He His latest books are Comment philosopher en islam (Phi- is currently editing a volume on Islamic education in lippe Rey, 2013) and L’encre des savants: réflexions sur la Africa. philosophie en Afrique...

... South. Specifically, the reader discovers a language of subjectivity that draws on Islamic philosophy and mysticism and on Sanskrit myth and literature. Psychoanalysis, in the end, becomes misrecognized. The portal through which these scholars enter reveals an intellectual wonderland where Freud himself...

... to which the adjective Islamic is sometimes appended (“Islamic” philosophy, literature, science, art, etc.). At the register of disciplinary discourse, Ahmed's intervention seeks to reinstate all this into Islam by opening up the category. On the other hand, he reacts against the other tendency—namely...

... in accordance with the different political situations and the positionalities and dependencies of the actors. The knowledge exchange went far beyond the newly emerging discipline of Islamic studies and classical Indology to include disciplines like sociology, economy, philosophy, and art. The Jewish...

.... graph and manuscript versions has interesting The introduction to the text makes a variations. The manuscript begins with an epi- strong argument for the importance of In- graph containing the typical Islamic formula dian philosophy, by placing it into a direct...

... of the lives and activities of Islamic societies today, an alternative concept of secularism, rather than simply an alternative to it, needs to be worked out. The challenge is not to abandon secularism but to formulate it as a philosophy with spiritual values, rather than solely a policy of the state...

...Richard McGregor This essay focuses on animals as a site for religion and identifies what McGregor calls the “religion of animals.” The construction of the human-animal divide is explored through the Quran, Islamic theology, and philosophy, with particular attention paid to the encyclopedic epistle...

...Rudolph T. Ware, III In this essay, Ware contributes to the Kitabkhana discussion of his book, The Walking Qur'an . The essays in the book forum, he writes, open onto questions of historiography and philosophy, theology and epistemology. Ware responds to these various approaches, defining his...

... of the Islamic gion and theology were intertwined with philosophy, economists: first, that Islam is not only a religion but economics, law, politics and ethics (Eliade 1987: v. 5, 1). also an economic systcm; secondly, that the discipline of Before examining the relationship between religion Islamic...

... . Zargar Cyrus Ali . The Polished Mirror: Storytelling and the Pursuit of Virtue in Islamic Philosophy and Sufism . London : Oneworld Publications , 2017 . Ziya Halid . Hikaye . Kostantiniyye/İstanbul: İstepan Matbaası, 1890 . Ziya Halid . Hikaye . Edited by Fazıl Gökçek...

... of the child (64). She also does a close reading of the writings of Abu al-Wafa al-Ghunaymi al-Taftazani, a Sufi sheikh and professor of Islamic philosophy who elaborated a psychological understanding of the Sufi self for the reading public. According to El-Shakry's interpretation of his approach, “sufism...

... In n te hoeia cecsepn.( expand. sciences theoretical other and philosophy thought] [nonpolitical] while political closed, [and remains politics of] reason realm this [the for and opens open) more theory becomes (or [theological] up of sphere the inquiry into of field the and world], sacred Islamic...