Chapter 8. Prospects for a New Idiom for Islamic History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. What is Islamic Studies? European and North American Approaches to a Contested Field 1
4. Chapter 1. There is No Data for Islam: Testing the Utility of a Category 32
5. Chapter 2. Critics as Caretakers, Religion as Critique 42
6. Chapter 3. Talal Asad and the Question of Islamic Secularities 60
7. Chapter 4. Territory at Stake! In Defence of ‘Religion’ and ‘Islam’ 82
8. Chapter 5. Power Practices and Pop: The Islam of Zain Bhikha 106
9. Chapter 6. Islam in the Making: History, Discourses, the Quran and Modern Science 126
10. Chapter 7. Paradigms of Religion and the Swift Birth of Islam: Wilfred Cantwell Smith Revisited 154
11. Chapter 8. Prospects for a New Idiom for Islamic History 176
12. Chapter 9. Constructing Islamic Studies: Gender, Power and Critique as Ethical Tools 192
13. About the Contributors 207
14. Index 208