Methods play a key role in how we access and subsequently organise data. There is a tendency, however, for scholars to focus primarily on their data at the expense of the methodological acts that bring such data into existence in the first place. The academic study of Islam is certainly no different in this regard. Indeed, many continue to employ established or classic methods that often echo (neo-)orientalist and other political inclinations. This collection, in contrast, offers an alternative, providing a set of multi-disciplinary approaches that focus on how we create, study and disseminate "Islamic data."
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Offers an innovative study of traditional and new methodologies used to study Islam
1. Introduction: Why New Methods in the Study of Islam? - Abbas Aghdassi and Aaron W. Hughes
I Methods: Old and New
2. New Methods, Old Methods in the Study of Islam: On the Importance of Translation - Aaron W. Hughes
3. The Reception of al-Andalus (1821-2021): Two Hundred Years of Study and Debate - Maribel Fierro and Alejandro García-Sanjuán
II Textual Studies
4. Subversive Philology? Prosopography as a Relational and Corpus-Based Approach to Early Islamic History - Georg Leube
5. Juxtaposition, Tension, Play: The Development of Islamic Law and Legal Theory - Ateeb Gul
6. New Theoretical Approaches to the Qur’an and Qur’anic Studies: An Analysis of the Qur’anic (Disabled) Body in Light of Conceptual Metaphor and Conceptual Blending Theory - Johanne Louise Christiansen
III Islam and/as Critique
7. On the Relationship between Culture/Religion and Politics: A Critique of the Culturalist Approach to Islam - Housamedden Darwish
IV New Comparisons
8. Can Comparative Theology Help Muslims to a Better Understanding of Religious Diversity? - Esra Akay Dağ
V Local Islams
9. Eastern or Western Paradigm: The Struggle for Methodological Dominance in the Study of Islam in Universities in Northern Nigeria - Dauda Abubakar
10. Narratives from the Peripheries: An Indian Ocean Perspective for the Study of Islam - Abdul Jaleel P.K.M.
11. Including Localized Islamic Concepts in the Study of Islam - Claudia Seise
12. Bodies, Things, Doings: A Practice Theory Approach to the Study of Islam - Ayşe Almıla Akca, Eyad Abuali, and Aydın Süer
Index
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Brings together a set of international voices from a variety of disciplines and fields, including religious studies, theology, philosophy, law and history
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781399503501
Publisert
2024-05-31
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
352