Review Essay On Irfan Ahmad’s Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace
<p dir="ltr">Ahmad’s book comes at a moment when a concerted effort is being made, on many fronts but especially from a right-wing, populist direction, to render “Islam” synonymous with the inability to think critically. Religion As Critique in this sense performs a timely range of f...
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| author | Ian Almond (14779615) |
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| dc.date.none.fl_str_mv | 2020-12-01T09:00:00Z |
| dc.identifier.none.fl_str_mv | 10.1111/rsr.14897 |
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| dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv | Human society Anthropology Philosophy and religious studies Religious studies Irfan Ahmad Religion as Critique Islamic critical thinking Persian/Urdu intellectual tradition women and gender in Islam anthropology of Islam Islamic intellectual history Urdu literary criticism Islamic modernity Islamic political thought |
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| description | <p dir="ltr">Ahmad’s book comes at a moment when a concerted effort is being made, on many fronts but especially from a right-wing, populist direction, to render “Islam” synonymous with the inability to think critically. Religion As Critique in this sense performs a timely range of functions: a useful reminder of how culturally located and historically conditioned the key moments of the Enlightenment were; a vigorous argument for the existence of alternative genealogies of “critical thinking,” in particular the Islamic Persian/Urdu speaking world of the seventeenth to twentieth centuries; a central consideration of one key figure in this period, the scholar Abu Aula Maududi and a number of his subsequent disciples, from whose debates Ahmad builds on to develop a concrete argument for an Islamic form of critique—one which “does not dismiss Greek, pre-Muhammad or Western traditions but which at the same time can’t be subsumed within them” (16); a brief evaluation of the debates around women and gender; and finally, some anthropologically driven considerations of the place the marginal and the everyday within the Muslim world has for any wider definition of what “Islam” and “Islamic thinking” might mean.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: Religious Studies Review<br>License: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rsr.14897" target="_blank">http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rsr.14897</a></p> |
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| spelling | Review Essay On Irfan Ahmad’s Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the MarketplaceIan Almond (14779615)Human societyAnthropologyPhilosophy and religious studiesReligious studiesIrfan AhmadReligion as CritiqueIslamic critical thinkingPersian/Urdu intellectual traditionwomen and gender in Islamanthropology of IslamIslamic intellectual historyUrdu literary criticismIslamic modernityIslamic political thought<p dir="ltr">Ahmad’s book comes at a moment when a concerted effort is being made, on many fronts but especially from a right-wing, populist direction, to render “Islam” synonymous with the inability to think critically. Religion As Critique in this sense performs a timely range of functions: a useful reminder of how culturally located and historically conditioned the key moments of the Enlightenment were; a vigorous argument for the existence of alternative genealogies of “critical thinking,” in particular the Islamic Persian/Urdu speaking world of the seventeenth to twentieth centuries; a central consideration of one key figure in this period, the scholar Abu Aula Maududi and a number of his subsequent disciples, from whose debates Ahmad builds on to develop a concrete argument for an Islamic form of critique—one which “does not dismiss Greek, pre-Muhammad or Western traditions but which at the same time can’t be subsumed within them” (16); a brief evaluation of the debates around women and gender; and finally, some anthropologically driven considerations of the place the marginal and the everyday within the Muslim world has for any wider definition of what “Islam” and “Islamic thinking” might mean.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: Religious Studies Review<br>License: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rsr.14897" target="_blank">http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rsr.14897</a></p>2020-12-01T09:00:00ZTextJournal contributioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontextcontribution to journal10.1111/rsr.14897https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Review_Essay_On_Irfan_Ahmad_s_Religion_as_Critique_Islamic_Critical_Thinking_from_Mecca_to_the_Marketplace/22258630CC BY 4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:figshare.com:article/222586302020-12-01T09:00:00Z |
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