1st Edition
Islam, Context, Pluralism and Democracy Classical and Modern Interpretations
By Yaser Ellethy
Copyright 2015
354 Pages
by
Routledge
354 Pages
by
Routledge
354 Pages
by
Routledge
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Islam, Context, Pluralism and Democracy aspires to clarify the tensions and congruences between the revelational and the rational, the text and the context, the limits and the horizons of contextualization in Islam, as these emanate from the Islamic interpretative tradition.
This book examines classical and modern Muslim interpretations with regard to the concepts of diachronic... Read more
Introduction 1 The Dilemma of a Diachronic Language 2 Classical Sources and Interpretations about Development 3 On Pluralism 4 On Democracy Conclusion
Biography
Yaser Ellethy is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Theology - VU University, Amsterdam. He holds PhDs in Islamic Theology and in Philology. He has published articles and books in English, Greek, Dutch and Arabic.
