TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ahmad,Irfan
TI  - Religion as critique: Islamic critical thinking from Mecca to the marketplace 
T2  - Islamic civilization and Muslim networks
SN  - 9781469635101
AV  - B745.R4 A36 2017eb
U1  - 181/.07 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Islamic philosophy
KW  - Faith and reason
KW  - Islam
KW  - Critical thinking
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Reasoning
KW  - fast
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Eastern
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Irfan Ahmad makes the far-reaching argument that potent systems and modes for self-critique as well as critique of others are inherent in Islam--indeed, critique is integral to its fundamental tenets and practices. Challenging common views of Islam as hostile to critical thinking, Ahmad delineates thriving traditions of critique in Islamic culture, focusing in large part on South Asian traditions. Ahmad contemplates and interrogates Greek and Enlightenment notions of reason and critique, and he notes how they are invoked in relation to "others," including Muslims. Drafting an alternative genealogy of critique in Islam, Ahmad reads religious teachings and texts, drawing on sources in Hindi, Urdu, Farsi, and English, and demonstrates how they serve as expressions of critique. Throughout, he depicts Islam as an agent, not an object, of critique."--
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