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Muslim identities : an introduction to Islam / Aaron W. Hughes

Author
Hughes, Aaron W., 1968-
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]
Copyright Date
©2013
Physical Description
xvi, 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: September 11 and the Quest for a Normative Islam -- The Insider-Outsider Debate -- Critics Versus Caretakers -- The "Authenticity Debate" in Islamic Studies -- Identity Formations -- Islam and Muslim Identities -- On Diversity -- pt. I ORIGINS -- 1.Setting the Stage: Pre-Islamic Arabia -- Pre-Islamic Arabia -- Pre-Islamic Arabian Religions -- Pre-Islamic Mecca -- Monotheisms in Arabia -- Later Muslim Accounts of Islamic Origins -- Outsider and Skeptical Approaches to Islamic Origins -- Islamic Origins: A Synthetic Approach -- 2.The Making of the Last Prophet -- Sources -- Muhammad at Mecca -- Muhammad at Medina -- Muhammad and the Jews of Medina -- Muhammad's Wives -- The Return to Mecca and Death of Muhammad -- The Making of the Last Prophet -- Polemical Literature Against Muhammad -- The Deeds and Sayings of Muhammad: The Genre of Hadith -- Representing Muhammad -- 3.The Quran: The Base Narrative -- Overview -- Traditional Accounts -- The Critical View -- The Linguistic Matrix of the Ancient Near East -- Why Don't Muslims Have an "Old Testament"? -- Messages and Contents -- The Inimitability of the Quran -- The Quran in Muslim Life -- Tafsir: Commentary on the Quran -- To'wil: Esoteric Interpretation of the Quran -- pt. II IDENTITY FORMATIONS -- 4.Islam Beyond the Arabian Peninsula: A Historical Overview -- The Death of Muhammad and the Seeds of Division -- The Events at the Portico of the Banu Sacida -- The Four Rashidun -- Abd al-Malik and the Creation of an Islamic Empire -- Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period -- The Abbasid Caliphate -- Al-Andalus, or Muslim Spain -- Independent Emirates -- The View from the Edge -- The Ottoman Empire -- 5.Early Sectarianism and the Formation of Shi'ism -- Wilferd Madelung's The Succession to Muhammad -- The Events at the Portico of the Banu Sa'ida: A Pro-Shi'i View -- Shi'at Ali -- The Events at Karbala -- The Ghulat -- The Importance of Ja'far al-Sadiq -- The Role of the Imam -- The Twelfth Imam' -- Shi'i Dynasties -- Twelver Shi'ism -- Other Shi'i Denominations -- Distinctive Doctrines -- 6.Legal Developments and the Rise of Sunni Islam -- The Origins of Islamic Law: Two Approaches -- Understanding the Concept of Law in Islam -- "Hadith Folk" and the Emergence of Sunni Islam -- The Importance of Muhammad al-Shafi'i -- Guardians of the Law: The Rise and Function of the Ulama -- Naskh -- Sources of Ascertaining the Sharia -- The Closing of the Gates of Ijtihad -- The Four Madhahib -- Shi'i Legal Schools -- Al-Azhar: The Center of Sunni Learning Today -- 7.Sufism -- Locating Sufism -- The Expansion-Asceticism Theory -- Sources of the Ascetic Impulse -- Geographic Diversity -- Key Terms and Concepts -- The Stations of Progression -- "Sober" and "Intoxicated" Sufism -- Some Key Figures -- Institutional Sufism -- Conservative Criticism of Sufism -- Lived Sufism Today -- pt. III BELIEFS AND PRACTICES -- 8.Constituting Identities: Beliefs and Schools -- The Rise of Muslim Theology (Kalam) -- The Status of the Grave Sinner -- Free Will and Predestination -- Mutazilites and the Doctrine of the Created Quran -- Ahmad ibn Hanbal -- The Asharites -- The Maturidis -- Medieval Islamic Philosophy -- The Five Doctrines of Muslim Faith -- 9.The Performance of Muslim Identities -- The Mosque -- Ritual Action -- The Five Pillars -- A Sixth Pillar: The Case of Jihad -- Ritual Practice in Shi'ism -- Muhammad's Birthday -- "Popular" Islam -- Sufism -- pt. IV MODERN VARIATIONS -- 10.Encounters with Modernity -- Definitions of Modernity -- Colonialism and Orientalism -- Maximalism and Minimalism -- The Versatility of Islam in the Modern World: An Overview -- Typology of Responses to Modernity -- 11.Constructing Muslim Women -- Modem Attempts to Re-create Women's Lives During the Time of Muhammad -- Gender and the Construction of Female Mystics -- The Veil: A Contested Symbol -- Traditional Patterns -- Fundamentalist Constructions -- Western Feminism and Islam -- Contemporary Islamic Feminism -- 12.Islam Post-September 11 -- Militant Voices: The Case of al-Qaeda -- Interpreting the Events of September 11 -- Islamophobia -- Muslim Apologetics: The Need to Define a Liberal Islam -- The Future.
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ISBN
9780231161466 (cloth : alk. paper)
0231161468 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231161473 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0231161476 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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