...Meera Nanda Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1991 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XI, Nos. 1 & 2 (1991). Is Modern Science a Western, Patriarchal Myth? A Critique of the Populist Orthodoxy Meera Nanda coupled with their staunch cultural...

... into the field of articulated theology, suggesting a virulent contestation for orthodoxy where traditionalists are hardly outflanked by the supposed scripturalism of Salafi doctrine. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Islam Africa theology Salafism Sufism References Brenner Louis...

... and literal interpretation of the Quran. As this article argues, these differing discourses point to an underappreciated Salafi capacity to go beyond the pure concerns of both anticolonial nationalism and Islamic orthodoxy. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 intellectual history modern...

... acceptance as a secondary school textbook represents the fixing of a historiographical orthodoxy that categorized Ottoman rule as alien, corrupt, and retrograde, a view that remains dominant in Egyptian popular consciousness until today. Duke University Press 2011 Egyptian Views of Ottoman Rule...

... sees the basic function of tradition convictions the subjects may have toward that as establishing orthodoxy and orthopraxy in a tradition even when possibly putting it to self- given historical and material context: “A tradi- serving uses. Both of these extremes make the tion consists essentially...

... process. In a separate 2017 book, Ahmed ascribes the production of Islamic truth in the premodern period to the “hadith movement.” In Before Orthodoxy , the hadith—and fiqh—society conceived and universalized with almost absolute success the rejection of the facticity of the Satanic-verses incident...

... is not only that because of its generality Ahmed's definition of Islam fails to make sense of this crucial difference by confusing orientalist and Islamic definitions of “orthodoxy.” It is also that such a failure is symptomatically interesting, for it indirectly makes something of orientalism manifest...

..., philosophy, anthropology, art history, and literature, among others—to conceptualize “Islam” in a way that is sensitive to a wider array of sources and attuned to the impulses they implicitly authorize, without restricting their relationship to orthodoxy or deriving their normative weight from...

... Press , 1982 . Purohit Teena . “Muhammad Iqbal on Muslim Orthodoxy and Transgression: A Response to Nehru.” ReOrient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies . Forthcoming . Qasmi Ali Usman . The Ahmadis and the Politics of Religious Exclusion in Pakistan . New York : Anthem...

... of and argument scholars The fusion “orientalist” states. of imperial claims dynastic safeguard convergent by and the follows “usurpation” off against mark to legacy age’s attempts orthodoxy’s golden the from long- arising subsequent, uni- the reversals rationalizing, and debilitating original monotheism term...

... in the Sheikhie’s reading, and the unholy alliance of religion and state. The the gates — in the Babi’s reading). orthodoxy then owes its existence as much to 73 Heterodoxy looked to scripture and tradi- the foundational works of the ulema of the pe- tion for the keys to salvation...

... of marrying areas and ideas, history, and theory. Our aim, of course, should not be to create a new orthodoxy, particularism, but to break the orthodoxies that the European tradition subsequently entailed; our aim should be to bring the social sciences...

.... It divided Indian thinkers and leaders reasoning. He wanted the humiliation experi- into opposing groups: a reluctant orthodoxy un- enced by Indian subjects of British imperialism willing to endorse reform and social reformers to provide a basis for recognizing and over- who vehemently advocated...

..., as a number of reviewers wondered, what kind of historical explanation can be offered in this way? As Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins notes, unlike Ahmed's Before Orthodoxy: The Satanic Verses in Early Islam (2017), in What Is Islam? the exact historical argument is not as clear here. In Before Orthodoxy...

... is that it is a book devoid of a historical argument regarding its major claims. Ahmed's book Before Orthodoxy: The Satanic Verses in Early Islam to some extent shows the historical process by which law “came increasingly to assert its self-constituted authority to subsume Islamic discourse.” 1 In What...

... in traditionreligious Islam and modernity) ular turmoil political world’s the of much explain to tries Samuel P. to of the mind new the “clash orthodoxy of civilizations,” Huntington’s work, which South. global the in spheres economic and political, social, out the separating of orthodoxies easy...

... looking for proof in the revealed texts and highlights revealed evidence as the answer to all questions. This evidentalist Islamic episteme has been fully embraced by Salafis and Quranic healers alike. Quranic healers assert an exclusive claim to healing orthodoxy for their therapy, a claim...

...: Cambridge University Press, Michigan Press, 2005. 1988. 24. With the very notable exception of Cheikh 25. I hope it is clear that by “orthodoxy” I am...

..., forced a restatement of the nomic affi liations with the European powers. 261 premises of rule after 1800. Opposition arose On the other hand, Muslim communities felt in religious debates over Muslim orthodoxy and threatened by their loss of status and angry Ottoman legitimacy...

...): From Genesis to Merger (Karachi: Oxford Uni- tun from following their ancient custom.” Orthodoxy versity Press, 2008). of the kind that became synonymous with the TNSM and TTP was unheard of. For example, dancing girls, or dumas, who “represent[ed] sexuality without com- mitment” were...