An anxious inheritance : religious others and the shaping of Sunnī orthodoxy /

An anxious inheritance : religious others and the shaping of Sunnī orthodoxy /

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Author / Creator:	Hughes, Aaron W., 1968- author.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Description:	viii, 264 pages ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Religious tolerance -- Islam. Islam -- Relations. Interfaith relations. Islam. Religious tolerance -- Islam.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12727803

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ISBN:	9780197613474 0197613470 9780197613498
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This study is about the tensions between the early framers of Islam and non-Muslims in the early Islamic period. More specifically, it is about how these early framers struggled with religious others, both external and internal, and how this struggle was ultimately responsible for the creation of what would emerge as (Sunnī) orthodoxy. While the latter would appear as the natural outgrowth of Muhammad's preaching to those doing the framing, it was ultimately little more than a subsequent development accompanied by a retroactive projection onto the earliest period. Non-Muslims (among them Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians) and the "wrong" kinds of Muslims (e.g., Shīʻa) became integral-by virtue of their perceived stubbornness, infidelity, heresy, or the like-to understand what true religion was not and, just as importantly, what it should be. Without such religious others proper belief could not be articulated and orthodoxy would simply have remained adrift in its own inchoateness"--
Other form:	Online version: W. Hughes, Aaron, 1968- Anxious inheritance New York : Oxford University Press, 2022 9780197613498

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Late Antique Fantasies
1. Qur'anic Others
2. Producing Islam Through the Production of Religious Others
3. Past Perfect: Opening the Jahiliyya's Complex Present
Part II. Subsequent Constructions
4. Good Jew, Bad Jew
5. Making Christians
6. Shi'a: The Other Within
7. The Amorphous Zindiq
Conclusions
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index