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The Bruce B. Lawrence Reader

Islam beyond Borders

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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2020

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This Reader assembles over two dozen selection of writing by leading scholar of Islam Bruce B. Lawrence which range from analyses of premodern and modern Islamic discourses, practices, and institutions to methodological and theoretical reflections on the study of religion.

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Bruce B. Lawrence is Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Religion at Duke University and author of numerous books, most recently The Koran in English: A Biography.

Ali Altaf Mian is Assistant Professor of Religion and Izzat Hasan Sheikh Fellow in Islamic Studies at the University of Florida.

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“Few people can talk about God, scripture, humanity, art, and piety as Bruce B. Lawrence can: elegantly, eloquently, and effortlessly. Both general and specialist audiences will find this reader compelling for its clarity and pedagogy. Gems of the Qur'an dance alongside mystical insights, seamlessly joined to world events and to Muslim societies and beyond, over time. An exemplary scholar tells us how history shapes ideas and people, especially the manifold ways we experience the sublime.”

-- Ebrahim Moosa, Mirza Family Professor of Islamic Thought and Muslim Societies, University of Notre Dame

“In bringing together Bruce B. Lawrence's pieces, this volume raises awareness of his original, significant, and exceptionally broad contributions to the study of religion and especially Islam.”

-- Marcia Hermansen, Director of Islamic World Studies at Loyola University Chicago

“Ali Altaf Mian, finding in Lawrence a brilliant mind and expansive attitude toward Islam, has collected here a remarkable selection of Lawrence’s most significant articles. . . . This collection is an impressive array of scholarship on the Muslim world, worth reading from cover to cover, even by insiders with a more than passing knowledge of Islam.”

-- Janet M. Powers Religion

"The Bruce B. Lawrence Reader is a window into the mind of a master scholar who has spent a lifetime learning and teaching that Islam has much to offer to the world if understood properly. . . . It was a joy to read this edited collection and I would recommend it to any serious students of Islam."

-- Mansur Ali Muslim World Book Review

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Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Introductions and Overviews

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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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1 Introduction. Ali Altaf Mian
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Part I. Theorizing Islam in World History
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One. Introduction to Shattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence 1998
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Two. Islam in Afro-Eurasia: A Bridge Civilization 2010
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Three. Muslim Cosmopolitanism 2012
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Four. Genius Denied and Reclaimed: Hodgson’s The Venture of Islam 2014
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Part II. Revaluing Muslim Comparativists
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Five. Al-Biruni: Against the Grain 2014
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Six. Shahrastani on Indian Idol Worship
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Seven. Introduction to Ibn Khaldun’s Muqaddimah 2005/2015
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Eight. Mystical and Rational Elements in the Early Religious Writings of Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan 1979
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Part III. Translating Institutional Sufism
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Nine. Can Sufi Texts Be Translated? Can They Be Translated from Indo-Persian to American English? 1990
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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
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Eleven. Sufism and Neo-Sufism 2010
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Twelve. “Allah Remembered: Practice of the Heart,” from Who Is Allah?
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Part IV. Deconstructing Religious Modernity
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Thirteen. “Fundamentalism as a Religious Ideology in Multiple Contexts” and Conclusion, from Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt against the Modern Age 1989
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Fourteen. “The Shah Bano Case,” from On Violence: A Reader 2007
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Fifteen. Introduction to Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden 2005
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Sixteen. Muslim Engagement with Injustice and Violence 2013
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Part V. Networking Muslim Citizenship
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Seventeen. Preface and Conclusion, from New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life 2002
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Eighteen. “W. D. Mohammed: Qur’an as Guide to Racial Equality,” from The Qur’an: A Biography 2006
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Nineteen. Introduction to Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop 2005
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Twenty. “AIDS Victims and Sick Women: Qur’an as Prescription for Mercy,” from The Qur’an: A Biography 2006
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Part VI. Reflecting the Divine Other in Words and Images
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Twenty-One · Approximating Sajʿ in English Renditions of the Qur’an: A Close Reading of Sura 93 (al-Ḍuḥā) and the Basmala 2005
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Twenty-Two. Epilogue to The Qur’an: A Biography 2006
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Twenty-Three. A Metaphysical Secularist? Decoding M. F. Husain as a Muslim Painter in Exile 2011
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Twenty-Four. Conclusion, from Who Is Allah? 2015
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Twenty-Five. The Future of Islamic Studies: Bruce B. Lawrence Interviewed by Ali Altaf Mian 2018
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Afterword
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Yasmin Saikia

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Bruce B. Lawrence’s writings
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Index
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Credits
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The Bruce B. Lawrence Reader

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Reviews

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction. Ali Altaf Mian

One. Introduction to Shattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence 1998

Two. Islam in Afro-Eurasia: A Bridge Civilization 2010

Three. Muslim Cosmopolitanism 2012

Four. Genius Denied and Reclaimed: Hodgson’s The Venture of Islam 2014

Five. Al-Biruni: Against the Grain 2014

Six. Shahrastani on Indian Idol Worship

Seven. Introduction to Ibn Khaldun’s Muqaddimah 2005/2015

Eight. Mystical and Rational Elements in the Early Religious Writings of Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan 1979

Nine. Can Sufi Texts Be Translated? Can They Be Translated from Indo-Persian to American English? 1990

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

Eleven. Sufism and Neo-Sufism 2010

Twelve. “Allah Remembered: Practice of the Heart,” from Who Is Allah?

Thirteen. “Fundamentalism as a Religious Ideology in Multiple Contexts” and Conclusion, from Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt against the Modern Age 1989

Fourteen. “The Shah Bano Case,” from On Violence: A Reader 2007

Fifteen. Introduction to Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden 2005

Sixteen. Muslim Engagement with Injustice and Violence 2013

Seventeen. Preface and Conclusion, from New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life 2002

Eighteen. “W. D. Mohammed: Qur’an as Guide to Racial Equality,” from The Qur’an: A Biography 2006

Nineteen. Introduction to Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop 2005

Twenty. “AIDS Victims and Sick Women: Qur’an as Prescription for Mercy,” from The Qur’an: A Biography 2006

Twenty-One · Approximating Sajʿ in English Renditions of the Qur’an: A Close Reading of Sura 93 (al-Ḍuḥā) and the Basmala 2005

Twenty-Two. Epilogue to The Qur’an: A Biography 2006

Twenty-Three. A Metaphysical Secularist? Decoding M. F. Husain as a Muslim Painter in Exile 2011

Twenty-Four. Conclusion, from Who Is Allah? 2015

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

Afterword

Bruce B. Lawrence’s writings

Index

Credits

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