An Anxious Inheritance: Religious Others and the Shaping of Sunni Orthodoxy - Hughes, Aaron W. (Dean's Professor of the Humanities and the Philip S. Bernstein Professor in the Department of Religion and Classics, Dean's Professor of the Humanities and the Philip S. Bernstein Professor in the Department of Religion and Classics, Uni - Grāmatas - Oxford University Press Inc - 9780197613474 - 2022. gada 9. jūnijs
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An Anxious Inheritance reveals the tensions between the early framers of Islam and the ever-expandable category of non-Muslims. Examining the encounter with these religious others, and showing how the Qur'an functioned as both a script to understand them and a map to classify them, this study
traces the key role that these religious others played in what would ultimately emerge as (Sunni) orthodoxy. This orthodoxy would appear to be the natural outgrowth of the Prophet Muhammad's preaching, but it ultimately amounted to little more than a retroactive projection of later ideas onto the
earliest period.

Non-Muslims (among them Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians) and the wrong kinds of Muslims (e.g., the Shi'a) became integral--by virtue of their perceived stubbornness, infidelity, heresy, or the like--to the understanding of what true religion was not and, just as importantly, what it should be.
These non-Muslims were rarely real individuals or groups; rather, they functioned as textual foils that could be conveniently orchestrated, and ultimately controlled, to facilitate Muslim self-definition. Without such religious others proper belief could, quite literally, not be articulated.
Shedding new light on the early history of Islam, while also problematizing the binary of orthodoxy/heresy in the study of religion, An Anxious Inheritance makes significant contributions to a number of diverse academic fields.


272 pages

Mediji Grāmatas     Hardcover Book   (Grāmata ar cieto muguriņu un vāku)
Izlaists 2022. gada 9. jūnijs
ISBN13 9780197613474
Izdevēji Oxford University Press Inc
Lapas 274
Izmēri 243 × 163 × 28 mm   ·   518 g
Valoda Angļu  

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