This book provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary exploration of civility and political culture in the Muslim world.
The contributions consider the changing interface between religion and politics throughout Islamic history, and into the present. Extending beyond saturated approaches of ‘political’ and/or ‘militant’ Islam, this collection captures the complex sociopolitical character of Islam, and identifies tensions between the political-secular and the sacred-religious in contemporary Muslim life.
The alternative conceptual framework to traditional analyses of secularisation and civility presented across this volume will be of interest to students and scholars across Islamic studies, religious studies, sociology and political science, civilisation studies, and cultural studies.
Author(s): Milad Milani, Vassilios Adrahtas
Series: New Directions in Islam
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 190
City: Cham
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
1: Introduction: Eschaton and Civility in Islamic History
1.1 Overview
1.2 Taha’s Understanding of Civility
1.3 The Polarity and the Binary in Religion and Politics: Further Theoretical Reflections
1.4 The Example of Ibn Khaldun’s Macro-History
1.5 Moses and Muhammad: Exemplars of the Eschaton
1.5.1 Moses
1.5.2 Muhammad
1.6 Closing Remarks on Introducing Relationships, Dynamics and Tensions
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2: The Quandary of Modernity: Islam and Civility
2.1 Introduction
2.2 A Genealogy of the Problem of Islamic Civility
2.3 What Is (Not) Islam About: Phenomenological Clarifications
2.4 The Limits of Civility in the History of Islam
2.5 Quasi-Civility in the History of Islam
2.6 An-Naim and the Hermeneutics of Civility: A Case Study Test
2.7 Conclusion
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3: Islamic Civility: Narrative, Habitus, and Institution
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Horizons of Civility Beyond the Straits of Civil Society
3.3 Individual Autonomy and Private Interests
3.4 Adab and Hadith: Between Narrative and Habitus
3.5 Mild Institutionalization in the Islamic Ecumene
3.6 Concluding Remarks
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4: Good Behaviour: Islam and Christianity as Framework for Religious Life
4.1 Introduction: Four Arguments Regarding Manners and Religious Life
4.2 Elaboration of the Contrast Between Christianity and Islam
4.3 Conclusion: Informalization and Amplification
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5: Considerations in Hadith and Qur’an: Text and Interpretation in a Study of Civility
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The Concept of Rahma
5.3 The Concept of Al-ma‘ruf
5.4 The Concept of Adab
5.5 Qur’anic Norms of Behavior
5.6 Prophetic Norms of Interpersonal Behavior
5.7 Conclusion
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6: The Limits of Islamic Civility in India
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Adab in Bahār-i ‘ajam
6.3 The Beginnings of Adab in India
6.4 Sufi and Juridical Discourses on Adab
6.5 Persianate Adab in India: The Literarization of the Vernaculars
6.6 Conclusion
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7: Islam Divided: The Underlying Political Culture of the Conflict Between the Sunni and the Shi‘a
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Levels of Fundamental Difference
7.2.1 The Question About Religious and Political Authority
7.2.2 The Interpretive Issue
7.2.3 Socio-historical Aspects
7.3 Trajectories and Transformations
7.3.1 The Shi‘a
7.3.1.1 Phase I: A Protest Movement
7.3.1.2 Phase II: A Revolutionary Movement
7.3.1.3 Phases III–IV: From Establishing a Polity to Institutional Disillusionment
7.3.1.4 Phase V: Ideological Shi‘a
7.3.1.5 Phase VI: Political Shi‘ism
7.3.2 The Sunni
7.4 Phenomenological Reflections
7.5 Further Reflections on Historicity and Conflict Theory
7.6 Conclusion
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8: The Paradox of Gendered Holiness in Islamic Mysticism
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Theoretical Framework
8.3 Contextualising Women in Islam
8.3.1 Interpreting Eve
8.3.2 Woman in Islamic Thought
8.3.3 Women in Islamic Law
8.4 Complexity and Controversy of the Woman in Islam
8.5 The Woman in Sufism
8.5.1 Sufi Women
8.6 Conclusion
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9: Conclusion: The Prospect of an Eschatological Civility
9.1 Introductory Remarks
9.2 Comparing Distinctive Hierophanic Experiences
9.3 Benevolence, Status, Gender and … Jihad?
9.4 Closing Thoughts
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Index
