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Format: 1 online resource (479 p.)

ISBN: 9781478012825

Content: Over the course of his career, Bruce B. Lawrence has explored the central elements of Islamicate civilization and Muslim networks. This reader assembles more than two dozen of Lawrence's key writings, among them analyses of premodern and modern Islamic discourses, practices, and institutions and methodological reflections on the contextual study of religion. Six methodologies serve as the organizing rubric: theorizing Islam, revaluing Muslim comparativists, translating Sufism, deconstructing religious modernity, networking Muslims, and reflecting on the Divine. Throughout, Lawrence attributes the resilience of Islam to its cosmopolitan character and Muslims' engagement in cross-cultural dialogue. Several essays also address the central role of institutional Sufism in various phases and domains of Islamic history. The volume concludes with Lawrence's reflections on Islam's spiritual and aesthetic resources in the context of global comity. Modeling what it means to study Islam beyond political and disciplinary borders as well as a commitment to linking empathetic imagination with critical reflection, this reader presents the broad arc of Lawrence's prescient contributions to the study of Islam.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface -- , Acknowledgments -- , 1 Introduction. Ali Altaf Mian -- , Part I. Theorizing Islam in World History -- , One. Introduction to Shattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence 1998 -- , Two. Islam in Afro-Eurasia: A Bridge Civilization 2010 -- , Three. Muslim Cosmopolitanism 2012 -- , Four. Genius Denied and Reclaimed: Hodgson’s The Venture of Islam 2014 -- , Part II. Revaluing Muslim Comparativists -- , Five. Al-Biruni: Against the Grain 2014 -- , Six. Shahrastani on Indian Idol Worship -- , Seven. Introduction to Ibn Khaldun’s Muqaddimah 2005/2015 -- , Eight. Mystical and Rational Elements in the Early Religious Writings of Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan 1979 -- , Part III. Translating Institutional Sufism -- , Nine. Can Sufi Texts Be Translated? Can They Be Translated from Indo-Persian to American English? 1990 -- , Ten. “What Is a Sufi Order? ‘Golden Age’ and ‘Decline’ in the Historiography of Sufism,” from Sufi Martyrs of Love: The Chishti Order in South Asia and Beyond 2002 -- , Eleven. Sufism and Neo-Sufism 2010 -- , Twelve. “Allah Remembered: Practice of the Heart,” from Who Is Allah? -- , Part IV. Deconstructing Religious Modernity -- , Thirteen. “Fundamentalism as a Religious Ideology in Multiple Contexts” and Conclusion, from Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt against the Modern Age 1989 -- , Fourteen. “The Shah Bano Case,” from On Violence: A Reader 2007 -- , Fifteen. Introduction to Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden 2005 -- , Sixteen. Muslim Engagement with Injustice and Violence 2013 -- , Part V. Networking Muslim Citizenship -- , Seventeen. Preface and Conclusion, from New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life 2002 -- , Eighteen. “W. D. Mohammed: Qur’an as Guide to Racial Equality,” from The Qur’an: A Biography 2006 -- , Nineteen. Introduction to Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop 2005 -- , Twenty. “AIDS Victims and Sick Women: Qur’an as Prescription for Mercy,” from The Qur’an: A Biography 2006 -- , Part VI. Reflecting the Divine Other in Words and Images -- , Twenty-One · Approximating Sajʿ in English Renditions of the Qur’an: A Close Reading of Sura 93 (al-Ḍuḥā) and the Basmala 2005 -- , Twenty-Two. Epilogue to The Qur’an: A Biography 2006 -- , Twenty-Three. A Metaphysical Secularist? Decoding M. F. Husain as a Muslim Painter in Exile 2011 -- , Twenty-Four. Conclusion, from Who Is Allah? 2015 -- , Twenty-Five. The Future of Islamic Studies: Bruce B. Lawrence Interviewed by Ali Altaf Mian 2018 -- , Afterword -- , Bruce B. Lawrence’s writings -- , Index -- , Credits , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781478012825

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 1-4780-1024-X , 1-4780-1282-X

Content: "This Reader assembles over two dozen selection of writing by leading scholar of Islam Bruce B. Lawrence which range from analyses of premodern and modern Islamic discourses, practices, and institutions to methodological and theoretical reflections on the study of religion."--

Note: Theorizing Islam in World History -- Introduction to Shattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence (1998) -- Islam in Afro-Eurasia: A Bridge Civilization (2010) -- Muslim Cosmopolitanism (2012) -- Genius Denied and Reclaimed: Hodgson's The Venture of Islam (2014) -- Revaluing Muslim Comparativists -- Al-Biruni: Against the Grain (2014) -- Shahrastani on Indian Idol Worship (1973) -- Introduction to Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah (2005/2015) -- Mystical and Rational Elements in the Early Religious Writings of Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1979) -- Translating Institutional Sufism -- Can Sufi Texts Be Translated? Can They Be Translated from Indo-Persian to American-English? (1990) -- "What Is a Sufi Order? 'Golden Age' and 'Decline' in the Historiography of Sufism," from Sufi Martyrs of Love: The Chishti Order in South Asia and Beyond (2002, Coauthored with Carl W. Ernst) -- Sufism and Neo-Sufism (2010) -- "Allah Remembered: Practice of the Heart," from Who Is Allah? (2015) -- Deconstructing Religious Modernity -- "Fundamentalism as a Religious Ideology in Multiple Contexts" and Conclusion, from Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt against the Modern Age (1989) -- "The Shah Bano Case," from On Violence: A Reader (2007) -- Introduction to Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden (2005) -- Muslim Engagement with Injustice and Violence (2013) -- Networking Muslim Citizenship -- Preface and Conclusion, from New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life (2002) -- "W. D. Mohammed: Qur'an as Guide to Racial Equality," from The Qur'an: A Biography (2006) -- Introduction to Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop (2005, Coauthored with Miriam Cooke) -- "AIDS Victims and Sick Women: Qur'an as Prescription for Mercy," from The Qur'an: A Biography (2006) -- Reflecting the Divine Other in Words and Images -- Approximating Saj in English Renditions of the Qur'an: A Close Reading of Sura 93 (al-Ḍuḥā) and the Basmala (2005) -- Epilogue to The Qur'an: A Biography (2006) -- A Metaphysical Secularist? Decoding M. F. Husain as a Muslim Painter in Exile (2011) -- Conclusion, from Who Is Allah? (2015) -- The Future of Islamic Studies: Bruce B. Lawrence Interviewed by Ali Altaf Mian.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781478012825