Redefining the Muslim Community – Ethnicity, Religion, and Politics in the Thought of Alfarabi
Autor Alexander Orwinen Limba Engleză Hardback – mai 2017
According to Orwin, Alfarabi strove to recast the Islamic Umma as a community in both a religious and cultural sense, encompassing art and poetry as well as law and piety. By proposing to acknowledge and accommodate diverse Ummas rather than ignoring or suppressing them, Alfarabi anticipated the contemporary concept of Islamic civilization, which emphasizes culture at least as much as religion. Enlisting language experts, jurists, theologians, artists, and rulers in his philosophic enterprise, Alfarabi argued for a new Umma that would be less rigid and more creative than the Muslim community as it has often been understood, and therefore less inclined to force disparate ethnic and religious communities into a single mold. Redefining the Muslim Community demonstrates how Alfarabi's judicious combination of cultural pluralism, religious flexibility, and political prudence could provide a blueprint for reducing communal strife in a region that continues to be plagued by it today.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780812249040
ISBN-10: 0812249046
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 162 x 238 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: MT – University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10: 0812249046
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 162 x 238 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: MT – University of Pennsylvania Press
Descriere
Redefining the Muslim Community demonstrates how Alfarabi's judicious combination of cultural pluralism, religious flexibility, and political prudence could provide a blueprint for reducing communal strife in a region that continues to be plagued by it today.