Shahab Ahmed and the Hermeneutics of Islam
In the posthumously published book, What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic (2016), Shahab Ahmed (1966-2015) presented a new conceptualisation of Islam to address two points: to re-conceptualise Islam in terms of contradiction, and re-present what it meant to be Islamic as a challenge to exis...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2020]
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Journal for the academic study of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 33, Issue: 2, Pages: 185–203 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Islam
/ Hermeneutics
/ Heidegger, Martin 1889-1976
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism BJ Islam VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Authenticity
B Heidegger B Islam B Shahab Ahmed B Hermeneutics B Thomas Sheehan |
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| Summary: | In the posthumously published book, What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic (2016), Shahab Ahmed (1966-2015) presented a new conceptualisation of Islam to address two points: to re-conceptualise Islam in terms of contradiction, and re-present what it meant to be Islamic as a challenge to existing conceptualisations. This article argues that Ahmed’s rethinking of Islam/Islamic is properly situated as a revivalist catholic hermeneutics, and as such, his conceptualisation is a reworking of insider discourse writ large. It further examines Ahmed’s hermeneutics through a Heideggerian lens. |
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| ISSN: | 2047-7058 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the academic study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/jasr.42442 |