3 The Reception of al-Andalus, 1821–2021: Two Hundred Years of Study and Debate

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. FIGURES vii
4. SERIES EDITORS’ FOREWORD viii
5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi
6. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS xiii
7. NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION xix
8. 1 Introduction: Why New Methods in the Study of Islam? 1
9. Part I Methods: Old and New
10. 2 New Methods, Old Methods in the Study of Islam: On the Importance of Translation 11
11. 3 The Reception of al-Andalus, 1821–2021: Two Hundred Years of Study and Debate 36
12. Part II Textual Studies
13. 4 Subversive Philology? Prosopography as a Relational and Corpus-Based Approach to Early Islamic History 69
14. 5 Juxtaposition, Tension, Play: The Development of Islamic Law and Legal Theory 108
15. 6 New Theoretical Approaches to the Qurʾān and Qurʾānic Studies: An Analysis of the Qurʾānic (Disabled) Body in Light of Conceptual Metaphor and Conceptual Blending Theory 127
16. Part III Islam and/as Critique
17. 7 On the Relationship between Culture/Religion and Politics: A Critique of the Culturalist Approach to Islam 165
18. Part IV New Comparisons
19. 8 Can Comparative Theology Help Muslims to a Better Understanding of Religious Diversity? 197
20. Part V Local Islams
21. 9 Eastern or Western Paradigm: The Struggle for Methodological Dominance in the Study of Islam in Universities in Northern Nigeria 221
22. 10 Narratives from the Peripheries: An Indian Ocean Perspective for the Study of Islam 252
23. 11 Including Localised Islamic Concepts in the Study of Islam 278
24. 12 Bodies, Things, Doings: A Practice Theory Approach to the Study of Islam 306
25. Index 328