Muḥammad ʿAbduh and His Interlocutors: Conceptualizing Religion in a Globalizing World
Leiden: Brill, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, 288pp. Index and 25 page bibliography. Pictorial boards with lilac/gray spine lettered in white. A fine but ex-library copy (with minimal markings; i.e. rubber stamps on title page & bottom of text block).
In Muḥammad ʿAbduh and his Interlocutors: Conceptualizing Religion in a Globalizing World, Ammeke Kateman offers an account of Muḥammad ʿAbduh’s Islamic Reformism in a context in which ideas increasingly crossed familiar geographical, religious and cultural frontiers. Presenting an alternative to the inadequate perspective of “Westernization”, Kateman situates the ideas of Muḥammad ʿAbduh (Egypt, 1849-1905) on Islam and religion amongst those of his interlocutors within a global intellectual field. Ammeke Kateman’s approach documents the surprising pluralism of ʿAbduh’s interlocutors, the diversity in their shared conceptualizations of religion and the creativity of ʿAbduh’s own interpretation. In this way, the conceptualizations of ʿAbduh and his contemporaries also shed light on the diversified global genealogy of the modern concept of religion. (Publisher)
Contents: Muhammad 'Abduh's world -- Conceptualizing 'religion' -- Risalat al-Tawhid in its context of conception: Beirut in the 1880s -- Comparing religions in Risalat al-Tawhid in the context of its conception -- Comparisons compared reflecting and producing a concept of 'religion' -- Hanotaux and 'Abduh. a layered context of discussion -- Comparing Islam and Christianity in reply to Hanotaux -- Comparisons compared: a play of similarity and difference.
Volume 162 in the Brill's series, "Numen Book Series. Studies in the History of Religions." near fine. Item #52948
ISBN: 9789004398351
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