Misquoting Muhammad : the challenge and choices of interpreting the Prophet's legacy / Jonathan A.C. Brown.
2014
297 B878m 2014
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Title
Misquoting Muhammad : the challenge and choices of interpreting the Prophet's legacy / Jonathan A.C. Brown.
ISBN
9781780744209
178074420X
9781780747828 (pbk.)
1780747829 (pbk.)
9781780744216 (ebook)
178074420X
9781780747828 (pbk.)
1780747829 (pbk.)
9781780744216 (ebook)
Imprint
London : Oneworld, 2014.
Language
English
Description
xxii, 361 pages, [8] pages of plates : color illustrations, color map, portraits ; 24 cm
Call Number
297 B878m 2014
System Control No.
(OCoLC)869266484
(OCoLC)869266484
(OCoLC)869266484
Summary
Few things provoke controversy in the modern world like the religion brought by Muhammad. There is alarm over jihad, underage marriage and the threat of amputation or stoning under Shariah law. Sometimes rumor, sometimes based in fact and often misunderstood, the tenets of Islamic law and dogma were not set in the religion's founding moments. They were developed over centuries by the clerical class of Muslim scholars. MISQUOTING MUHAMMAD takes the reader back in time through Islamic civilization and traces how and why such controversies developed, offering an inside view into how key and controversial aspects of Islam took shape. From the protests of the Arab Spring to Istanbul at the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and from the ochre red walls of Delhi's great mosques to the trade routes of Islam's Indian Ocean world, Misquoting Muhammad lays out how Muslim intellectuals have sought to balance reason and revelation, weigh science and religion, and negotiate the truths of scripture amid shifting values.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-348) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
The problem(s) with Islam
A map of the Islamic interpretive tradition
The fragile truth of scripture
Clinging to the canon in a ruptured world
Muslim Martin Luthers and the paradox of tradition
Lying about the Prophet of God
When scripture can't be true
Appendix I: Marracci and Ockley on Aisha's marriage to the Prophet
Appendix II: Hadiths on a parent killing his child
Appendix III: The hadith of Riba and incest
Appendix IV: The hadith of the seventy-two virgins.
A map of the Islamic interpretive tradition
The fragile truth of scripture
Clinging to the canon in a ruptured world
Muslim Martin Luthers and the paradox of tradition
Lying about the Prophet of God
When scripture can't be true
Appendix I: Marracci and Ockley on Aisha's marriage to the Prophet
Appendix II: Hadiths on a parent killing his child
Appendix III: The hadith of Riba and incest
Appendix IV: The hadith of the seventy-two virgins.
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