Inwardness: Comparative Religious Philosophy in Modern Egypt
This article centers the Islamic philosopher ʿUthman Amin in order to explore the intellectual exchange between Muslim and Christian scholars in twentieth-century Egypt. Specifically, I look at inwardness, intellectual dialogue, and interreligious friendships in a field that has traditionally been d...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2022
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 90, Issue: 2, Pages: 450-472 |
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Amīn, ʿUthmān 1905-1979
/ Egypt
/ Inwardness
/ Discoursivity
/ Interfaith dialogue
/ Christianity
/ Islam
/ History 1940-1959
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AX Inter-religious relations BJ Islam CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBL Near East and North Africa NBE Anthropology NCB Personal ethics |
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| Summary: | This article centers the Islamic philosopher ʿUthman Amin in order to explore the intellectual exchange between Muslim and Christian scholars in twentieth-century Egypt. Specifically, I look at inwardness, intellectual dialogue, and interreligious friendships in a field that has traditionally been dominated by scholarship on the relationship between Islam and politics or Islam and the law. I elucidate Amin’s philosophy of inwardness and its attendant virtues of seclusion, spiritual contemplation, and the jihad of the self—paying particular attention to reading as an illuminative embodied practice—through the lens of an Islamic discursive tradition. How might we understand the concept of an Islamic discursive tradition, as a philosophy of reasoned and embodied religion, within the context of such interreligious encounters? Amin, I argue, was engaged in an experimentum mentis in which inwardness provided an angle of lucidity from which Islam and Christianity could gaze upon one another. In so doing, I demonstrate the heuristic value of theorizations of tradition by Alasdair MacIntyre and Talal Asad to studies of interreligious encounter and scholarly exchange. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4585 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfac032 |