Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword by Professor Hasan al-Shafi’i -- Introduction -- STORIES OF DISENCHANTMENT -- 1 Locating the (Neo)Traditional -- 2 Modern Times -- PLACES OF RE-ENCHANTMENT -- 3 Travelers to Tradition -- 4 Formation of Authority and Conditions of Plausibility -- 5 The Metaphysical Lens -- 6 Race, Gender, and Belonging -- LOCATING NEO-TRADITIONALISM IN MODERNITY -- 7 The Sufi, the Palace, and the People -- 8 The Seekers, Politics, and Power -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Dichotomies, transformations, and continuities in the study of Islam / Islamic texts : the anthropologist as reader / Textual aspects of religious authority in premodern Islam / What to do with ritual texts : Islamic Fiqh texts and the study of Islamic ritual / Textual study of gender / Scholarship on gender politics in the Muslim world / Power, orthodoxy, and salvation in classical Islamic theology / Dialectical theology in the search for modern Islam / "Classical" Islamic legal theory as ideology : Nasr Abu Zayd's study of al-Shafi'i's al-Risala / Islamic law in the modern world : Sufi networks, hospitality, and translocal inclusivity / Middle eastern studies and Islam : oscillations and tensions in an old relationship…”

“…The book also includes the first Western language translation of al-Shafi'i's Kitab Jima' al-'Ilm, which articulates arguments that were critical in establishing the position of the Hadith in mainstream Islam…”
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