Teaching Humanity An Alternative Introduction to Islam /
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| Resumo: | XVIII, 277 p. 14 illus. text |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2023.
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| Edição: | 1st ed. 2023. |
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| Acesso em linha: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22362-4 |
| Formato: | Recurso Eletrônico Livro |
Sumário:
- 1 Introduction: Teaching Humanity—Islam as a Humanistic Tradition
- Islam as a Humanistic Tradition
- Defining Humanism and the Humanities
- Orientalism and the Study of Islam
- Islam as a Legalistic Tradition
- Three Men and an Elephant: Describing Islam
- Islam: The Straight Path, or Is It?
- Islam or Islam(s)?: Accounting for Islamic Diversity
- Talal Asad: Islam as a Discursive Tradition
- Shahab Ahmed and the Critique of Asad
- The “Pre-Text”
- The “Con-Text”: The Product of Engagement
- Islam as an Affective Tradition
- Challenging Textual Essentialism
- Moving Beyond the Text: There Is a Reason They Call It Folk Wisdom Teaching Humanity: An Alternative Introduction to Islam
- Questions for Discussion.-2 Islam’s Diverse Paths, Part One: Patterns of Belief
- Defining Islam
- Islam’s Diverse Paths
- Islam: A Man and A Book
- Islam: Unity in Diversity
- Usul al-Din: The Roots of Religion
- Tawhid: The Unity of God
- Mansur Al-Hallaj: The Secret of Ana al-Haqq
- Nubuwwa: Belief in Prophets
- A Brief Outline of the Life of the Historical Muhammad
- Following Muhammad: The Prophet as a Model for Later Generations Qiyama: Belief in the Day of Judgment
- Conclusion
- Questions for Discussion
- 3 Islam’s Diverse Paths, Part Two: Patterns of Practice and Identity.-The Path of “Law”: The Shariʿa
- ʿIbadat and Muʿamalat: Shariʿa as Ritual and Social Practice
- Muʿamalat: Shariʿa as Social Practice
- Shariʿa: Islamic Law?
- The Path of Morality and Etiquette: Akhlaq and Adab
- Paths of Love: Mahabba and ʿIshq
- Walking the Path of Love: The Story of Layla and Majnun
- Islam’s Diverse Communities: Shiʿa, Sunni, and Sufi
- The Force of History: From Saqifa to Karbala
- A Man and a Book: Accounting for Sunni and Shiʿi Islam
- Shiʿi Islam: The Path of Devotional Allegiance
- Shiʿi Islam’s Diverse Paths
- Sunni Islam: The Islam of the Sunna and the Community
- Belief in the AwliyaʾAllah: The Sufi Tradition
- Wahdat al-Wujud and the Sufi Tradition
- Conclusion: Islam as a Humanistic Tradition
- Questions for Discussion
- 4 Teaching Humanity: The Human Being as the Object and Means of Revelation in Islamic Piety.-Approaching the Qurʾan
- The Qurʾan as Sacred Presence
- The Form and Content of the Qurʾan
- Qurʾanic Verses: Affirmations of Tawhid and Qiyama
- Qurʾanic Verses: Practice and Ethics
- Qurʾanic Verses: Narratives
- Interpreting the Qurʾan
- Muhkamat and Mutashabihat Verses
- Teachers of Humanity: Prophets, Imams, and Awliyaʾ
- Adam in the Qurʾan
- Iblis and Adam in the Qurʾan
- Mansur al-Hallaj and the Creation of Adam
- The Alevi Understanding of the Adam and Iblis Story
- The Narrative of Khidr and Musa
- Conclusion: Humanity in the Qurʾan
- Questions for Discussion
- 5 Patterns of Devotional Allegiance: God’s Friends (AwliyaʾAllah) and Perfected Persons (al-Insan al-Kamil)
- Devotional Allegiance to the Prophet Muhammad
- Love and Devotional Allegiance to the Prophet Muhammad
- Love and Devotion for ʿAli b. Abu Talib
- Karbala: Shiʿi Islam’s Spiritual Fulcrum
- Karbala as a Meme
- Karbala as a Root Paradigm
- Victor Turner on Human Nature: Communitas and Structure
- Etic and Emic
- Devotional Allegiance in the Sufi Tradition
- The Story of Baba Farid Shakr Ganj and Mullah Sahab
- Interpretation
- Ahmet Yesevi in the Vilayetname
- The Proclamation of the Praiseworthy Qualities of Hoca Ahmet Yesevi Hezretleri Analysis
- Conclusion
- Questions for Discussion
- 6 My Qibla Is a Man: Islam Beyond the Shariʿa
- Defining Alevilik
- The Nature of Alevi Religion
- Alevilik as Shiʿi Piety
- Alevilik as a Sufi Tradition
- The Cem
- The Origin of the Cem in the Miraç of the Prophet
- Contemporary Alevilik
- Urban Cems and Cem Evis
- Alevi Music and Performance
- The Saz and the Minaret
- Contemporary Alevi Literature
- Narratives from the Vilayetname
- The Narrative of the Lineage and Birth of Hacı Bektaş in the Vilayetname
- The Vilayetname as an Islamic Text
- The Narrative of Güvenç Abdal
- My Qibla is a Man: Islam Beyond the Law
- Questions for Discussion
- 7 Conclusion: Not an Excess of Religion, But a Lack of Humanity—In Search of “Mainstream Islam”
- Radical Muslims and Muslim Extremists
- How to Write About Muslims
- Islam and Humanity
- The “Reformers” and Their Legacy
- In Search of “Mainstream” Islam
- “I Created Everything for You and You for Me:” An Alternative View of Islam
- Creating Insan al-Kamil: The End of Humanity
- “Mainstream Islam” and Shari‘a
- “Mainstream Islam” and Modernity
- Conclusion
- Questions for Discussion
- Glossary
- Bibliography.