Textual Aspects of Religious Authority in Premodern Islam

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 7
3. Preface 9
4. Introduction 11
5. Texts
6. Islamic Texts 29
7. Textual Aspects of Religious Authority in Premodern Islam 47
8. What to Do with Ritual Texts 67
9. Gender
10. Textual Study of Gender 87
11. Scholarship on Gender Politics in the Muslim World 109
12. Theology and the History of Ideas
13. Power, Orthodoxy, and Salvation in Classical Islamic Theology 135
14. Dialectical Theology in the Search for Modern Islam 161
15. Law
16. “Classical” Islamic Legal Theory as Ideology 183
17. Islamic Law in the Modern World 205
18. Networks
19. Vernacular Cosmopolitanism as an Ethical Disposition 223
20. Culture and Religion
21. Middle Eastern Studies and Islam 241
22. Notes on Contributors 269
23. Overview of NISIS Autumn Schools, 2010-2014 275
24. Index 279