Omid Safi
Forfatter af Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender, and Pluralism
Om forfatteren
Omid Safi, Ph.D., is professor of Islamic studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Where he specializes in Islamic mysticism (Sufism), contemporary Islamic thought, and medieval Islamic history. He is also the author of The Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam and the editor of vis mere Progressive Muslims. vis mindre
Værker af Omid Safi
The Politics of Knowledge in Premodern Islam: Negotiating Ideology and Religious Inquiry (2006) 21 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 20th century
- Køn
- male
- Uddannelse
- Duke University (BA | Religion)
Duke University (MA | History of Religions)
Duke University (PhD | Islamic Studies) - Erhverv
- Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Colgate University
Director, Middle Eastern and Islamic Civilizations Studies (MIST) Program, Colgate University - Organisationer
- American Academy of Religion
Middle East Studies Association
Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society
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This book far from reflects the majority opinion of Muslims, but the contributors do make a good case for a more magnanimous form of Islam. Although some of the authors make the same mistake that Irshad Manji does in her famous treatise, i.e. fixating on certain aspects of the Quran and ignoring the parts they find inconvenient, they are from her sloppy scholarship. If only more Muslims read this instead of skeptics.
Really eye-opening and well argued but inchoate progressive positions within Islam.
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Each scholar wrote a short essay, and years later these essays have been turned into book(s). Gives you a nice preview of what the authors will later expand. The essay quality varies, but in general, they are quite good and easily accessible to the average university undergraduate.
Many of these academics are no longer at the institutions listed in the introduction, but a quick Google search should locate them easily.
Progressive Muslim scholars in this book include Kecia Ali, Khaled Abou El Fadl, Farid Esak, Marcia Hermansen, Amir Hussain, Ahmet K. Karamustafa, Tazim R. Kassam, Scott Kugle, Ebrahim Moosa, Ahmad S. Moussalli, Farish Ahmad-Noor, Omid Saifi, Sa'diyya Shaikh, Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, and Amina Wadud.… (mere)