Rethinking Islam: Common Questions, Uncommon Answers

A Berber from the mountainous region of Algeria, Mohammed Arkoun is an internationally renowned scholar of Islamic thought. In this book, he advocates a conception of Islam as a stream of experience encompassing majorities and minorities, Sunni and Shi'a, popular mystics and erudite scholars, ancient heroes and modern critics. A product of Islamic

Lee, Robert D.

Arkoun, Mohammed

Reference

Routledge

Rethinking Islam

A Berber from the mountainous region of Algeria, Mohammed Arkoun is an internationally renowned scholar of Islamic thought. In this book, he advocates a conception of Islam as a stream of experience encompassing majorities and minorities, Sunni and Shi'a, popular mystics and erudite scholars, ancient heroes and modern critics. A product of Islamic culture, Arkoun nonetheless disagrees with the Islamic establishment and militant Islamist groups; as a student of twentieth-century social science in the West and an admirer of liberalism, he self-consciously distances himself from Western Orientalists and Western conceptions of liberalism.This bookthe first of Arkoun's works to be widely available in Englishpresents his responses to twenty-four deceptively simple questions, including: Can one speak of a scientific understanding of Islam in the West or must one rather talk about the Western way of imagining Islam? What do the words Islam,” Muslim,” and Qur'an” mean? What is meant by revelation” and tradition''? What did Islam retain from the previously revealed religionsJudaism and Christianity? What did it retain from the religions and customs of pre-Islamic Arabia? In answering these and other questions, Arkoun provides an introduction to one of the world's great religions and offers a biting, radical critique of Islamology as it has been practiced in both East and West.This is a book for the beginning student of Islam and for the general reader uneasy with media images of Islam as a monolithic, anti-Western, violence-prone religion. It is also a book for specialists seeking an entré into Arkoun's methhodologyhis efforts toapply contemporary thinking about anthropology, philosophy, semiotics, history, and sociology to the Islamic tradition and its relationship to the West. It is a book for anyone concerned about the identity crisis that has left many Muslims estranged from both a modernity imposed upon them and a tradition subverted for nationalist and Islamist purposes.

Religion & Spirituality

Westview Press

At a time when Islam is vilified by some and a source of inspiration for others, Mohammed Arkoun’s is one of few voices that go against the stream. This radical review of the historiography of Islam draws on historical, social, psychological, and anthropological analysis.

Islam: To Reform or to Subvert?

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Saqi Books

Mohammed Arkoun is one of the Muslim world's foremost thinkers. His efforts to liberate Islamic history from dogmatic constructs have led him to a radical review of traditional history. Drawing on a combination of pertinent disciplines ? history, sociology, psychology and anthropology ? his approach subjects every system of belief and non-belief, every tradition of exegesis, theology and jurisprudence to a critique aimed at liberating reason from the grip of dogmatic postulates. By treating Islam as a religion as well as a time-honoured tradition of thought, Arkoun's work aims at overcoming the limitations of descriptive, narrative and chronological modes in history by recommending that the entire development of Islamic thought ? from Quranic to present-day fundamentalist discourses ? be subjected to a critical analysis guided by these categories. The expected outcome of such a strategy is an emancipated political reason working hand in hand with a truly creative imagination for a radical re-construction of mind and society in the contemporary Muslim world.

The Unthought In Contemporary Islamic Thought

Min al-ijtihād ilá naqd al-ʻaql al-Islāmī (Buḥūth ijtimāʻīyah) (Arabic Edition)

Dār al-Sāqī

al-ʻAlmanah wa-al-dīn: Al-Islām, al-Masīḥīyah, al-Gharb (Buḥūth ijtimāʻīyah) (Arabic Edition)

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Mohammed Arkoun (1928-2010) est l'une des plus grandes figures de l'islamologie contemporaine. Son approche scientifique, centrée sur la « critique de la raison islamique », a fait de lui le précurseur de tous ceux qui veulent en finir avec les impasses mortifères du littéralisme en se fondant sur l'apport des sciences humaines. LectureS du Coran, paru initialement en 1982, est un ouvrage-clé de sa démarche : il mobilise toutes les ressources de la linguistique, de la sémiotique, de l'histoire des mentalités et de la sociologie pour déconstruire le discours classique sur le Coran. Ce faisant, il aborde les sujets les plus brûlants : statut du Livre comme parole de Dieu, shar'a et condition de la femme, jihd, islam et politique... et montre en quoi toutes les lectures du Coran sont nécessairement des « constructions humaines ». Mohammed Arkoun considérait ce livre comme la matrice de son oeuvre et a consacré les dernières années de sa vie à le remanier et à l'enrichir. Son épouse, Touria Yacoubi-Arkoun, a pu réunir les ultimes versions de ces textes afin de permettre à cette édition définitive de voir le jour. Le résultat témoigne de la fécondité des pistes de recherches ouvertes près d'un demi-siècle plus tôt : cette oeuvre de visionnaire demeure d'une importance cruciale dans la lutte contre les fondamentalismes.

Lectures du Coran

ALBIN MICHEL

LES MUSULMANS - CONSULTATION ISLAMO-CHRETIENNE

Askari, Hassan

Moubarac, Youakim

BEAUCHESNE

Parler d'humanisme et d'Islam en ces temps de violence ou Jihad et McWorld sont devenus deux Figures d'une confrontation inegale et mondiale, est a la fois necessaire et risque. Historiquement, la preoccupation humaniste a mobilise des penseurs feconds et originaux en contextes islamiques entre 800 et 1100 environ. La generation de Miskawayh et Tawhidi (950-1020) a ete particulierement active, efficace dans l'animation d'un humanisme combiant avec succes les belles lettres, l'histoire, la geographie humaine, la philosophie et une culture religieuse ouverte. Ce livre ouvre de nombreux debats d'une brulante actualiste au sujet des conditions historiques, intellectuelles et culturelles qui ont conduit a la disparition progressive dans tous les contextes islamiques, de la pensee et de la pratique humanistes depuis le XIIIe siecle. La reflexion s'arrete longuement sur le grand paradoxe de ce parcours historique a rebours de celui de l'Europe: pourquoi les luttes antocoloniales dites de la liberation ont genere tres vite apres quelques annees d'euphorie nationale, de durables desenchantements, de durs echecs sociaux et economiques, des regressions culturelles et intellectuelles et meme de tragiques guerres civiles au nom d'un islam livre a toute les formes de l'exegese sauvage.

Humanisme Et Islam: Combats Et Propositions (Etudes Musulmanes - Poche) (French Edition)

Philosophy

Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin

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