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In What Is Islam?, Shahab Ahmed presents a bold new conceptualization of Islam that challenges dominant understandings grounded in the categories of "religion" and "culture" or those that privilege law and scripture. He argues that these modes of thinking obstruct us from understanding Islam, distorting it, diminishing it, and rendering it incoherent. What Is Islam? formulates a new conceptual language for analyzing Islam. It presents a new paradigm of how Muslims have historically understood divine revelation - one that enables us to understand how and why Muslims through history have embraced values such as exploration, ambiguity, aestheticization, polyvalence, and relativism, as well as practices such as figural art, music, and even wine drinking as Islamic

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: What Is Islam?
• Author: Shahab Ahmed
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 632
• EAN: 9780691178318
• ISBN: 9780691178318
• ID: 16229401
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 920 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 156 × 35 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. October 2017

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