Over the course of his career, Bruce B. Lawrence has explored the central elements of Islamicate civilization and Muslim networks. This reader assembles more than two dozen of Lawrence's key writings, among them analyses of premodern and modern Islamic discourses, practices, and institutions and methodological reflections on the contextual study of religion. Six methodologies serve as the organizing rubric: theorizing Islam, revaluing Muslim comparativists, translating Sufism, deconstructing religious modernity, networking Muslims, and reflecting on the Divine. Throughout, Lawrence attributes the resilience of Islam to its cosmopolitan character and Muslims' engagement in cross-cultural dialogue. Several essays also address the central role of institutional Sufism in various phases and domains of Islamic history. The volume concludes with Lawrence's reflections on Islam's spiritual and aesthetic resources in the context of global comity. Modeling what it means to study Islam beyond political and disciplinary borders as well as a commitment to linking empathetic imagination with critical reflection, this reader presents the broad arc of Lawrence's prescient contributions to the study of Islam.
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- Contents
- Preface / Bruce B. Lawrence
- Acknowledgments / Bruce B. Lawrence
- Introduction / Ali Altaf Mian
- Part I. Theorizing Islam in World History
- One. Introduction to Shattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence | 1998
- Two. Islam in Afro-Eurasia: A Bridge Civilization | 2010
- Three. Muslim Cosmopolitanism | 2012
- Four. Genius Denied and Reclaimed: Hodgson’s The Venture of Islam | 2014
- Part II. Revaluing Muslim Comparativists
- Five. Al-Biruni: Against the Grain | 2014
- Six. Shahrastani on Indian Idol Worship | 1973
- Seven. Introduction to Ibn Khaldun’s Muqaddimah | 2005/2015
- Eight. Mystical and Rational Elements in the Early Religious Writings of Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan | 1979
- Part III. Translating Institutional Sufism
- Nine. Can Sufi Texts Be Translated? Can They Be Translated from Indo-Persianto American English? | 1990
- Ten. “What Is a Sufi Order? ‘Golden Age’ and ‘Decline’ in the Historiography of Sufism,” from Sufi Martyrs of Love: The Chishti Order in South Asia and Beyond | 2002, Coauthored with Carl W. Ernst
- Eleven. Sufism and Neo-Sufism | 2010
- Twelve. “Allah Remembered: Practice of the Heart,” from Who Is Allah? | 2015
- Part IV. Deconstructing Religious Modernity
- Thirteen. “Fundamentalism as a Religious Ideologyin Multiple Contexts” and Conclusion, from Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt against the Modern Age | 1989
- Fourteen. “The Shah Bano Case,” from On Violence: A Reader | 2007
- Fifteen. Introduction to Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden | 2005
- Sixteen. Muslim Engagement with Injustice and Violence | 2013
- Part V. Networking Muslim Citizenship
- Seventeen. Preface and Conclusion, from New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life | 2002
- Eighteen. “W. D. Mohammed: Qur’an as Guide to Racial Equality,” from The Qur’an: A Biography | 2006
- Nineteen. Introduction to Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop | 2005, coauthored with miriam cooke
- Twenty. “AIDS Victims and Sick Women: Qur’an as Prescription for Mercy,” from The Qur’an: A Biography | 2006
- Part VI. Reflecting the Divine Other in Words and Images
- Twenty-One. Approximating Sajʿ in English Renditions of the Qur’an: A Close Reading of Sura 93 (al-Ḍuḥā) and the Basmala | 2005
- Twenty-Two. Epilogue to The Qur’an: A Biography | 2006
- Twenty-Three. A Metaphysical Secularist? Decoding M. F. Husainas a Muslim Painter in Exile | 2011
- Twenty-Four. Conclusion, from Who Is Allah? | 2015
- Twenty-Five. The Future of Islamic Studies: Bruce B. Lawrence Interviewed by Ali Altaf Mian | 2018
- Afterword / Yasmin Saikia
- Bruce B. Lawrence’s Writings
- Index
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