Being a Muslim in the World - Rethinking Islam for a Post-Western History

Informationen zum Autor Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York. Klappentext What does it mean to be a Muslim - in this world, in this deeply transformative time? Hamid Dabashi suggests that the transition to a changed, post-Western world requires the crafting of a new language of critical conversation with Islam and its cosmopolitan heritage - a language that is tuned to the emerging, not the disappearing, world Zusammenfassung What does it mean to be a Muslim - in this world! in this deeply transformative time? Hamid Dabashi suggests that the transition to a changed! post-Western world requires the crafting of a new language of critical conversation with Islam and its cosmopolitan heritage - a language that is tuned to the emerging! not the disappearing! world Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction.Muslims in the World 1.But there is neither East nor West 2.Breaking the Binary 3.The Muslim Cosmopole 4.Being a Muslim 5.Din, Dowlat, and Donya: Rethinking Worldliness 6.'Religion—Quote, Unquote' Conclusion.Towards a Hermeneutics of Alterity

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Introduction.Muslims in the World 1.But there is neither East nor West 2.Breaking the Binary 3.The Muslim Cosmopole 4.Being a Muslim 5.Din, Dowlat, and Donya: Rethinking Worldliness 6.'Religion-Quote, Unquote' Conclusion.Towards a Hermeneutics of Alterity

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: H Dabashi, H. Dabashi, Hamid Dabashi, Dabashi Hamid
• Edition: Palgrave UK
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 30.10.2012
• EAN: 9781137301284
• ISBN: 978-1-137-30128-4
• Pages: 174
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Religion, théologie > Autres religions; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Systèmes politiques; C, Sociology of Religion, Sociology, Political Philosophy, Middle East, world history, social and political philosophy, Social Philosophy, Colonialism and imperialism, General and world history, imperialism, Social sciences—Philosophy, World History, Global and Transnational History, Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Imperialism and Colonialism, Religion and sociology, Middle Eastern Politics, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Political science—Philosophy, hermeneutics;Islam;language;Muslims;religion