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200828s2021 nyu b 001 0 eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780231170659 (pbk) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
Library of Congress |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
297.09 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Bauer, Thomas, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1961 September 27- |
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author. |
| 245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
A culture of ambiguity : |
| Remainder of title |
an alternative history of Islam / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Thomas Bauer ; translated by Hinrich Biesterfeldt and Tricia Tunstall. |
| 263 ## - PROJECTED PUBLICATION DATE |
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2104 |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Columbia University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2021. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xii, 323 p. ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
1. Introduction -- 2. Cultural Ambiguity -- 3. Does God Speak in Textual Variants? -- 4. Does God Speak Ambiguously? -- 5. The Blessing of Dissent -- 6. The Islamization of Islam -- 7. Language: A Serious Business and a Game -- 8. The Ambiguity of Sexual Desire -- 9. The Serene Look at the World -- 10. In Quest of Certainty -- Bibliography. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"Islamic cultures seem to be ideal examples of cultures dominated entirely by religious norms. But in this sense the modern understanding of Islam differs markedly from that of the classical period (i.e., the premodern until well into the nineteenth century). Whereas modern fundamentalist movements aim at the greatest possible legitimization of religious norms throughout the entire society and see this as being the most Islamic structure (and are confirmed in this view by the western public opinion of Islam), a glimpse at premodern Islamic cultural forms offer a much more complex picture. Already the extraction of norms from the authoritative texts reveals itself to be an exacting process of disambiguation that included several subjective processes and rational procedures. The fact that these procedures led to a juxtaposition of competing norms was widely accepted--see the much quoted prophet's hadith "Difference of opinion is a mercy for my community." This kind of tolerance of ambiguity manifests itself not only in Islamic law but also in many other spheres of Islamic scholarship (for example, in Qur'an exegesis and in linguistics), in several literary genres, and also in the mentality of social conditions and of the people themselves, which included tolerance of religious minorities, sympathetic attitudes towards foreigners, and high social mobility). Symptomatic is also the considerably conflict-free coexistence of religious and secular discourses in classical Islamic culture, which stands in striking contrast to the inseparability of Islam and the worldly sphere postulated today. Under these specific conditions Islam was spared many of the crises of the Occident, but herein also lies an important cause of the current conflicts between Islam and the modern West. The collision of Islam with a culture that hardly knew such a tolerance of ambiguity and tended to reject it had to lead to a reformulation of the fundamentals of Islam in the form of ideologies that were more in conformance with modernity, which, in both their pro-western liberal form as well as in their Islamicist variation, are equally characterized by the rejection of their own cultural traditions. Beyond the investigation of cultural ambiguity in Islamic history, this interdisciplinary project tests out to what degree the investigation of the (in)tolerance of ambiguity allows relevant cultural-historical approaches to be established"-- |
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Provided by publisher. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Language note |
Translated from German. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Religious tolerance |
| General subdivision |
Islam. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Islam |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century |
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Social aspects. |
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Islamic sociology. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Ambiguity. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Biesterfeldt, Hinrich, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1943- |
| Relator term |
translator. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Tunstall, Tricia, |
| Relator term |
translator. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY |
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| Relationship information |
Online version: |
| Main entry heading |
Bauer, Thomas, 1961 September 27- |
| Title |
A culture of ambiguity |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication |
New York : Columbia University Press, 2021. |
| International Standard Book Number |
9780231553322 |
| Record control number |
(DLC) 2020039639 |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
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Book |
