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1 online resource (viii, 279 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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"This volume owes its genesis to a symposium on 'Approaches to the notion of dignity and deficiency in the context of Qur'ānic anthropology' held in September 2015 at the Chair for the Study of Religions at the University of Erlangen (FAU)."--Page vii. |
| Summary |
In recent years, the challenge of relating one's own theological concept of man and his destiny to secular topics, such as the inviolability of human dignity, has generated a dynamic discourse about how Islamic anthropology can help cultivate and perfect the individual self and social 'humanisation'. This anthology brings together contemporary Muslim and non-Muslim approaches to the secular notion of human dignity with reference to the Islamic tradition in general and the anthropology of the Qur'ān in particular. The collection presents approaches to Islamic theological anthropology, across a range of fields, especially with regard to the narrative of Adam and Iblīs, which occurs in all monotheistic traditions. It focuses on the specific 'grammars'of anthropological narratives at the levels of the canonical text of the Qur'ān itself (Section I) and the interpretations that focus on its performative discourse (Section II). Further to this, the normative implications of the human images that are derived from the canonical text and its interpretations are discussed in Section III. The dynamic interdependencies between the hermeneutics of the Qur'ān, theological anthropology and legal philosophy, particularly in the European context, are a promising field of research that not only allows a deeper insight into the multiperspectivity and indexicality of theological anthropology, but also has the potential to facilitate the long-overdue discursive cooperation and rapprochement between Muslim and non-Muslim scholarship. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Dynamics of theological anthropology in Islamic contexts: an introduction / Rüdiger Braun (Erlangen) -- The deconstruction of the Adam and Eve narrative in Bereshit Rabbah: variations on the significance of the name 'Adam', the Image of God and the fall and redemption of man(king) in Jewish late antiquity / Matthias Morgenstern (Tübingen) -- Trialogical anthropology: the Qur'ān on Adam and Iblis in view of rabbinic and Christian discourse / Holger Zellentin (Nottingham) -- If God is king, is man his vicegerent? Considering halifah in regard to ancient kingship / Ruben Schenzle (Berlin) -- The transformation of mythical, biblical and apocryphal narrations in the Qur'ān: a mimentic approach / Hüseyin I. Çiçek (Erlengen) -- Anthropology and the religious dynamics of mythologising: remarks on various interpretations of the Adam myth in monotheistic traditions / Cengiz Batuk (Samsun) -- Reasoning humanity: toward a contextual reading of the Qur'ānic anthropology / Rüdiger Braun (Erlangen) -- From the rational term of 'being' to the theologico-ethical idea of selfhood / Muhammad Nekroumi (Erlangen) -- Time and historicity of man in the context of his divine destiny: reflections on Qur'ānic anthropology and alterity in the perspective of modern hermeneutics / Burhanettin Tatar (Samsun) -- Islam, the Enlightenment and the justification of human dignity / Mehmet Said Reçber (Ankara) -- Human dignity and the creativeness of Muslim Fiqh: reflections on classical and contemporary Muslim approaches to the challenges of equality between human beings. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Qurʼan -- Hermeneutics -- Congresses.
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Qurʼan. |
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Hermeneutics. |
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Qurʼan. |
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Dignity -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- Congresses.
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Dignity -- Religious aspects -- Islam. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Braun, Rüdiger, 1966- editor.
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Cicek, Hüseyin I., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: New approaches to human dignity in the context of Qur'ānic anthropology. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017 1443898619 (OCoLC)983937762 |
| ISBN |
9781443892735 (electronic book) |
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1443892734 (electronic book) |
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9781443898614 (hardback) |
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1443898619 (hardback) |
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