Humanism and Muslim Culture : Historical Heritage and Contemporary Challenges
The papers of this volume move from the abstract scheme of an intercultural humanism of the future to concrete cultural expressions of humanism within the Muslim culture of different times up to the present. They concentrate on three issues. The first is related to contemporary attempts to develop a...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | German |
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[s.l.] : Vandenhoeck Ruprecht,
2012
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| Ausgabe: | 1. Aufl. |
| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Reflections on (in)humanity
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| Schlagworte: | Islam Islam and humanism |
| Umfang: | Online Ressource (1525 KB, 188 S.) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Stefan Reichmuth//Aladdin Sarhan: 1. Foreword; Stefan Reichmuth//Aladdin Sarhan: 2. Humanism and Muslim Culture: Historical Heritage and Contemporary Challenges; 1. Universal concept of humanity; 2. Centrality of the human being: Anthropocentrism; 3. Human dignity as a basic value of cultural orientation; 4. Equality of all human beings in respect to their essential dignity; 5. Fundamental reference to responsibility and otherness in human existence; 6. Individuality and social responsibility; 7. Humanity and Transcendence; The present book
- Part I: A humanist hermeneutics of Islam?Part II: Debates on humanist elements in Islamic culture; Part III: Humanism and Islam in European identity politics: German and Dutch cases; Bibliography; Part I: A humanist hermeneutics of Islam?; : 3. The Concept of Man in the Qur'an. Non-Muslim Perspectives; Introduction; Part I: The social background of the Qur'anic text; Part II: Humanistic Hermeneutics of the Qur'an; Bibliography; : 4. Rethinking the Qur'an: Towards a Humanistic Hermeneutics; 1. The Qur'an as `Discourse'; 2. The Qur'an versus the Muṣḥaf: the spoken and the silent
- 3. The `Text' Reconstructed and Manipulated4. Polyphonic not Monophonic; Who Speaks and Who Listens?; 5. Dialogue; 6. Negotiation; 7. From Negotiation to Disputation; Conclusion; Bibliography; : 5. The Vicissitudes of Ethics in Islamic Thought; The two sources of ethics; 1) From the tensions between reason and belief to an ultraliberal pragmatism versus Islamic fundamentalism; 2) From the ethics of to the expansion of Islamic fundamentalism: which specific lessons?; 3) Where do the Values Go? Commanding the Right and Prohibiting the Wrong (al-amr bi-l-ma'rūf wa-l-nahy 'ani-l-munkar)
- Instead of a Conclusion: Postulates and Systems of TruthBibliography; Part II: Debates on humanist elements in Islamic culture; Renate Würsch: 6. Humanism and Mysticism - Inspirations from Islam; Bibliography; Hinrich Biesterfeldt: 7. The Perfect Man - a Humanist?; 1. The Perfect Man in Ibn al-ʿArabī's thought and al-Jīlī's system; 2. Various personifications of the Perfect Man in Islamic religious thought; 3. The Perfect Man - a Humanist?; Bibliography; Stefan Reichmuth: 8. Humanism in Islam between Mysticism and Literature; Bibliography
- Michael Kreutz: 9. Understanding the Other: on Reason and IndividualismHeritage in an Age of Criticism; From to ; A Plea for Human Reason; From Reason to Faith; Bibliography; Part III: Humanism and Islam in European identity politics: German and Dutch cases; Birgit Schäbler: 10. Humanism, Orientalism, Modernity: A Critique; From Humanism to Neo-Humanism; Writing Islam out of Modernity; Global Modernity; Bibliography; Michael Kemper: 11. The Cracks in Civilizations: The Dutch Public Discourse on Humanism and Islam; , Fitna (2008); , Islam for Pigs (2008)
- Kader Abdolah, The Koran/The Messenger (2008)