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The Qurʾan and the West / Kenneth Cragg.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2006, c2005.Description: 235 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1589010868 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781589010864
Other title:
  • Qurʾan & the West [Spine title]
  • Koran and the West
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 297.1/226 22
LOC classification:
  • BP130.4 .C715 2006
Contents:
A deep divide in a single situation -- Humans who occupy : not gods who own -- Legitimate selfhood -- 'Whisperings in the bosom' -- The vital point of the secular -- The burdened significance of words -- Where the heart has its reasonings -- The onus of necessary shape, art and ritual -- The table and the memory -- Journeying the distance -- Divinely liable politics -- Our humanly liable lord -- Afterword.
A deep divide in a single situation -- Humans who occupy : not gods who own -- Legitimate selfhood -- whisperings in the bosom -- The vital point of the secular -- The burdened significance of words -- Where the heart has its reasonings -- The onus of necessary shape, art and ritual -- The table and the memory -- Journeying the distance -- Divinely liable politics -- Our humanly liable lord -- Afterword.
1. A deep divide in a single situation -- 2. Humans who occupy : not gods who own -- 3. Legitimate selfhood -- 4. 'Whisperings in the bosom' -- 5. The vital point of the secular -- 6. The burdened significance of words -- 7. Where the heart has its reasonings -- 8. The onus of necessary shape, art and ritual -- 9. The table and the memory -- 10. Journeying the distance -- 11. Divinely liable politics -- 12. Our humanly liable lord.
Review: "For six decades Kenneth Cragg has been recognized and praised as one of the West's most gifted interpreters of Islam. In this latest work, Cragg argues that the West must put aside a "spiritual imperialism" that draws on western prescripts alien of Muslims and "learn to come within" Islam. Only then can a conversation begin that can relieve the misunderstandings and suspicion that has grown between Islam and the West - especially since 9/11." "Cragg makes clear that a misunderstanding of the tenets of a religion is a condition religious have suffered through the centuries and one to which Islam is no exception. He argues that the terrorists of 9/11 perverted the Qur'an's meaning and yet argues that fanaticism cannot be healed by being deplored or rebuked. Instead, the factors that induced it need to be resolved so that the "anxieties they shelter can be patiently allayed." The Qur'an and the West offers a means of study that reaches for a deeper knowledge of the Qur'an, engendering a new understanding of its holy teachings, and opening a means for a fruitful discourse."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

A deep divide in a single situation -- Humans who occupy : not gods who own -- Legitimate selfhood -- 'Whisperings in the bosom' -- The vital point of the secular -- The burdened significance of words -- Where the heart has its reasonings -- The onus of necessary shape, art and ritual -- The table and the memory -- Journeying the distance -- Divinely liable politics -- Our humanly liable lord -- Afterword.

A deep divide in a single situation -- Humans who occupy : not gods who own -- Legitimate selfhood -- whisperings in the bosom -- The vital point of the secular -- The burdened significance of words -- Where the heart has its reasonings -- The onus of necessary shape, art and ritual -- The table and the memory -- Journeying the distance -- Divinely liable politics -- Our humanly liable lord -- Afterword.

1. A deep divide in a single situation -- 2. Humans who occupy : not gods who own -- 3. Legitimate selfhood -- 4. 'Whisperings in the bosom' -- 5. The vital point of the secular -- 6. The burdened significance of words -- 7. Where the heart has its reasonings -- 8. The onus of necessary shape, art and ritual -- 9. The table and the memory -- 10. Journeying the distance -- 11. Divinely liable politics -- 12. Our humanly liable lord.

"For six decades Kenneth Cragg has been recognized and praised as one of the West's most gifted interpreters of Islam. In this latest work, Cragg argues that the West must put aside a "spiritual imperialism" that draws on western prescripts alien of Muslims and "learn to come within" Islam. Only then can a conversation begin that can relieve the misunderstandings and suspicion that has grown between Islam and the West - especially since 9/11." "Cragg makes clear that a misunderstanding of the tenets of a religion is a condition religious have suffered through the centuries and one to which Islam is no exception. He argues that the terrorists of 9/11 perverted the Qur'an's meaning and yet argues that fanaticism cannot be healed by being deplored or rebuked. Instead, the factors that induced it need to be resolved so that the "anxieties they shelter can be patiently allayed." The Qur'an and the West offers a means of study that reaches for a deeper knowledge of the Qur'an, engendering a new understanding of its holy teachings, and opening a means for a fruitful discourse."--BOOK JACKET.

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