What Is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic Ahmed ShahabPaperback
What Is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic Ahmed ShahabPaperback A bold new conceptualization of Islam that reflects its contradictions and rich diversityWhat is Islam? What is "Islamic" about…
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What Is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic Ahmed ShahabPaperback
A bold new conceptualization of Islam that reflects its contradictions and rich diversityWhat is Islam? What is "Islamic" about Islamic philosophy or Islamic art? How do we grasp a human and historical phenomenon characterized by such variety and contradiction?
Should we distinguish the Islamic (the religious) from the Islamicate (the cultural)? Should we speak of Islam or of islams? Or should we abandon "Islamic" altogether as an analytical term?In What Is Islam?, Shahab Ahmed presents a bold new conceptualization of Islam that challenges dominant understandings grounded in the categories of "religion" and "culture" or those that privilege law and scripture.
He argues that these modes of thinking obstruct us from understanding Islam, distorting it, diminishing it, and rendering it incoherent.What Is Islam? formulates a new conceptual language for