Lived Islam - Colloquial Religion in a Cosmopolitan Tradition

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Dialect Islam: the Islam of differences; 3. Shared Islam: the KOINÉ Islam; 4. Cosmopolitan Islam: the standard Islam of the scholars; 5. Modern Islam; 6. Scripturalism and modern religion.

About the author

A. Kevin Reinhart is Associate Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. He is the author of Before Revelation: The Boundaries of Muslim Moral Thought (1995) and many articles on aspects of Islamic civilization.

Summary

This book is designed to serve as a text for courses on modern Islam. It challenges misleading questions which foster assumptions of Islam as a monolithic essence to instead argue that Islam, like all religions, is complex and thus best understood through analogy with language.

Product details

• Authors: A. Kevin Reinhart, A. Kevin (Dartmouth College Reinhart, Reinhart A. Kevin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781108704007
• ISBN: 978-1-108-70400-7
• No. of pages: 202
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Islam, HISTORY / Middle East / General, RELIGION / Islam / General, RELIGION / Islam / Theology, Theology, Middle Eastern history, Islamic Theology, Aspects of religion, Aspects Of Religion (Non-Christian)