E-Book, Englisch, Band Volume 002, Part, 188 Seiten
Reihe: Reflections on (In)Humanity
Historical Heritage and Contemporary Challenges
E-Book, Englisch, Band Volume 002, Part, 188 Seiten
Reihe: Reflections on (In)Humanity
ISBN: 978-3-86234-937-1
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1;Title Page;3
2;Copyright;4
3;Table of Contents;7
4;Body;9
5;Stefan Reichmuth//Aladdin Sarhan: 1. Foreword;9
6;Stefan Reichmuth//Aladdin Sarhan: 2. Humanism and Muslim Culture: Historical Heritage and Contemporary Challenges;11
6.1;1. Universal concept of humanity;13
6.2;2. Centrality of the human being: Anthropocentrism;14
6.3;3. Human dignity as a basic value of cultural orientation;15
6.4;4. Equality of all human beings in respect to their essential dignity;15
6.5;5. Fundamental reference to responsibility and otherness in human existence;16
6.6;6. Individuality and social responsibility;16
6.7;7. Humanity and Transcendence;17
7;The present book;18
8;Part I: A humanist hermeneutics of Islam?;20
9;Part II: Debates on humanist elements in Islamic culture;21
10;Part III: Humanism and Islam in European identity politics: German and Dutch cases;22
11;Bibliography;24
12;Part I: A humanist hermeneutics of Islam?;25
13;: 3. The Concept of Man in the Qur'an. Non-Muslim Perspectives;27
13.1;Introduction;27
13.2;Part I: The social background of the Qur'anic text;30
13.3;Part II: Humanistic Hermeneutics of the Qur'an;35
13.4;Bibliography;38
14;: 4. Rethinking the Qur'an: Towards a Humanistic Hermeneutics;39
14.1;1. The Qur'an as `Discourse';41
14.2;2. The Qur’an versus the Mu..af: the spoken and the silent;43
14.3;3. The `Text' Reconstructed and Manipulated;44
14.4;4. Polyphonic not Monophonic; Who Speaks and Who Listens?;47
14.5;5. Dialogue;50
14.6;6. Negotiation;53
14.7;7. From Negotiation to Disputation;55
14.8;Conclusion;59
14.9;Bibliography;60
15;: 5. The Vicissitudes of Ethics in Islamic Thought;61
15.1;The two sources of ethics;63
15.2;1) From the tensions between reason and belief to an ultraliberal pragmatism versus Islamic fundamentalism;65
15.3;2) From the ethics of to the expansion of Islamic fundamentalism: which specific lessons?;73
15.4;3) Where do the Values Go? Commanding the Right and Prohibiting the Wrong (al-amr bi-l-ma‘ruf wa-l-nahy ‘ani-l-munkar);78
15.5;Instead of a Conclusion: Postulates and Systems of Truth;82
15.6;Bibliography;84
16;Part II: Debates on humanist elements in Islamic culture;87
17;Renate Würsch: 6. Humanism and Mysticism – Inspirations from Islam;89
17.1;Bibliography;99
18;Hinrich Biesterfeldt: 7. The Perfect Man – a Humanist?;101
18.1;1. The Perfect Man in Ibn al-.Arabi’s thought and al-Jili’s system;102
18.2;2. Various personifications of the Perfect Man in Islamic religious thought;105
18.3;3. The Perfect Man – a Humanist?;108
18.4;Bibliography;112
19;Stefan Reichmuth: 8. Humanism in Islam between Mysticism and Literature;115
19.1;Bibliography;125
20;Michael Kreutz: 9. Understanding the Other: on Reason and Individualism;127
20.1;Heritage in an Age of Criticism;129
20.2;From to ;132
20.3;A Plea for Human Reason;136
20.4;From Reason to Faith;139
20.5;Bibliography;142
21;Part III: Humanism and Islam in European identity politics: German and Dutch cases;145
22;Birgit Schäbler: 10. Humanism, Orientalism, Modernity: A Critique;147
22.1;From Humanism to Neo-Humanism;148
22.2;Writing Islam out of Modernity;150
22.3;Global Modernity;156
22.4;Bibliography;159
23;Michael Kemper: 11. The Cracks in Civilizations: The Dutch Public Discourse on Humanism and Islam;163
23.1;, Fitna (2008);165
23.2;, Islam for Pigs (2008);170
23.3;Kader Abdolah, The Koran./The Messenger (2008);173
23.4;Conclusion;176
23.5;Bibliography;177
24;About the Contributors;179
