Alternative Islamic discourses and religious authority /

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Imprint:Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Company, [2013]
Description:ix, 206 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Contemporary thought in the Islamic world
Contemporary thought in the Islamic world.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10149545
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Other authors / contributors:Kersten, Carool.
Olsson, Susanne.
ISBN:9781409441304 (hardcover : alk. paper)
140944130X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781409441311 (ebook)
9781472400536 (epub)
1409441318 (ebook)
9781409441311 (ebook)
1472400534 (epub)
9781472400536 (epub)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: alternative Islamic discourses and religious authority
  • Ijtihad and the derivation of new jurisprudence in contemporary Shi'ism: the rulings of Ayatollah Bujnurdi
  • Judicial and rational challenges of the doctrine of jurist's rule
  • Muslim perception of Fethullah Gülen and the Hizmet movement: accommodating or hindering modern Turkey?
  • A Turkish Mahdi? Apocalypticism in Harun Yahya's Da'wah enterprise
  • `Amr Khaled on individual proactivity
  • Harmonious being: a space for an alternative way of exploring religion
  • Islamic post-traditionalism in Indonesia: revisiting tradition and the future of Islam
  • Women's agency in transforming religious discourse: gender-sensitive interpretations of Islam in Indonesia
  • Treading a dangerous path? The use of Islam in women's rights advocacy
  • Index