Islam: Essays on Scripture, Thought and Society - A Festschrift in Honour of Anthony H. Johns

This volume contains 17 articles on various aspects of Islamic thought in the Middle East and in Southeast Asia. The first 9 articles concentrate especially on the Qur'?n and its exegesis, "Kal?m" and Sufism; the second 8 articles deal with Javanese Islam, and with Islam and modernity in Southeast Asia.

About the author

Peter G. Riddel is Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies and Linguistics, and Director of the Centre for Islamic Studies and Muslim-Christian Relations, at the London Bible College (Brunel University). His Ph.D. thesis was published as Transferring a Tradition (Berkeley, 1990: Centers for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California). He is currently preparing a book on the sources and development of Islamic thought in the Malay-Indonesian world c1300-c1990.
Tony Street is Lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Australian National University. He works on medieval Arabic logic, and is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.

Product details

• Assisted by: Peter Riddell (Editor), Street (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.1997
• EAN: 9789004106925
• ISBN: 978-90-04-10692-5
• No. of pages: 412
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 243 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 857 g
• Series: Islamic Philosophy, Theology a
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