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What Is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic
Shahab Ahmed Ahmed
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Cover Page
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Dedication Page
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Preface
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Part One Questions
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What is Islam?
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Chapter 1: Six Questions about Islam
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Part Two Conceptualizations
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Chapter 2: Islam as Law, islams-not-Islam, Islamic and Islamicate, Religion and Culture, Culture and Civilization
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Chapter 3: Religion and Secular, Sacred and Profane, Theocentric and Anthropocentric, Total Social Fact, Family Resemblance
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Chapter 4: Culture, Meaning, Symbol System, Core and Nucleus, Whatever-Muslims-Say-It-Is, Discursive Tradition, Orthodoxy, Process
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Part Three Re-Conceptualizations
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Chapter 5: Hermeneutical Engagement, Pre-Text, Text, and Con-Text, Meaning-Making for the Self, Spatiality of Revelation, Hierarchy, Exteriority-Interiority, Public and Private, Language and Vocabulary, Ambivalence and Ambiguity, Metaphor and Paradox
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Chapter 6: Applications and Implications: Coherent Contradiction, Exploration, Diffusion, Form and Meaning, Modern
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The Importance of Being Islamic
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Works Cited
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Index
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Published: 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
- 9781400873586 (ebook)
- 9780691164182 (hardcover)