Twenty-Five. The Future of Islamic Studies: Bruce B. Lawrence Interviewed by Ali Altaf Mian 2018

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. 1 Introduction. Ali Altaf Mian 1
6. Part I. Theorizing Islam in World History
7. One. Introduction to Shattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence 1998 25
8. Two. Islam in Afro-Eurasia: A Bridge Civilization 2010 54
9. Three. Muslim Cosmopolitanism 2012 78
10. Four. Genius Denied and Reclaimed: Hodgson’s The Venture of Islam 2014 90
11. Part II. Revaluing Muslim Comparativists
12. Five. Al-Biruni: Against the Grain 2014 99
13. Six. Shahrastani on Indian Idol Worship 113
14. Seven. Introduction to Ibn Khaldun’s Muqaddimah 2005/2015 124
15. Eight. Mystical and Rational Elements in the Early Religious Writings of Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan 1979 141
16. Part III. Translating Institutional Sufism
17. Nine. Can Sufi Texts Be Translated? Can They Be Translated from Indo-Persian to American English? 1990 161
18. 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 176
19. Eleven. Sufism and Neo-Sufism 2010 191
20. Twelve. “Allah Remembered: Practice of the Heart,” from Who Is Allah? 218
21. Part IV. Deconstructing Religious Modernity
22. Thirteen. “Fundamentalism as a Religious Ideology in Multiple Contexts” and Conclusion, from Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt against the Modern Age 1989 229
23. Fourteen. “The Shah Bano Case,” from On Violence: A Reader 2007 255
24. Fifteen. Introduction to Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden 2005 262
25. Sixteen. Muslim Engagement with Injustice and Violence 2013 274
26. Part V. Networking Muslim Citizenship
27. Seventeen. Preface and Conclusion, from New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life 2002 305
28. Eighteen. “W. D. Mohammed: Qur’an as Guide to Racial Equality,” from The Qur’an: A Biography 2006 327
29. Nineteen. Introduction to Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop 2005 333
30. Twenty. “AIDS Victims and Sick Women: Qur’an as Prescription for Mercy,” from The Qur’an: A Biography 2006 345
31. Part VI. Reflecting the Divine Other in Words and Images
32. Twenty-One · Approximating Sajʿ in English Renditions of the Qur’an: A Close Reading of Sura 93 (al-Ḍuḥā) and the Basmala 2005 351
33. Twenty-Two. Epilogue to The Qur’an: A Biography 2006 370
34. Twenty-Three. A Metaphysical Secularist? Decoding M. F. Husain as a Muslim Painter in Exile 2011 374
35. Twenty-Four. Conclusion, from Who Is Allah? 2015 395
36. Twenty-Five. The Future of Islamic Studies: Bruce B. Lawrence Interviewed by Ali Altaf Mian 2018 409
37. Afterword 432
38. Bruce B. Lawrence’s writings 441
39. Index 451
40. Credits 463