Innovation in Islam : traditions and contributions

Author(s)

• Kamrava, Mehran

Bibliographic Information

Innovation in Islam : traditions and contributions

edited by Mehran Kamrava

University of California Press, c2011

• : pbk.
• : cloth

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

"Published in collaboration with the Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University's Schoolf of Foreign Service in Qater." --P. facing t.p.

Contents of Works

• Contextualizing innovation in Islam / Mehran Kamrava
• Knowledge and hermeneutics in Islam today : which reform? / Tariq Ramadan
• Deconstructing epistēmē(s) / Mohammed Arkoun
• Iranian Shi'ism at the gates of historic change / Mehran Kamrava
• History from below, dictionary from below / Nelly Hanna
• The translation of the Qur'an : an impossible task, the classical linguistic-theological roots of the debate / Nasr Abu-Zayd
• Toward a new understanding of renewal in Islam / Adonis
• Creation, originality, and innovation in Sufi poetry / Patrick Laude
• Innovation in the visual arts of Islam / Walter B. Denny
• Liberal/progressive, modern, and modernized Islam : Muslim Americans and the American state
• Sherman A. Jackson
• Hijab and choice : between politics and theology / Ziba Mir-Hosseini
• Modern movements in Islam / John O. Voll

Details

• NCID: BB09362635
• ISBN:
  • 9780520266957
  • 9780520266940
• LCCN: 2010039651
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Berkeley
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 251 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BP60
  • DC22 : 297.2/609
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Islam -- 21st century
  • LCSH : Islamic renewal
  • LCSH : Islamic fundamentalism