Islam : between message and history / Abdelmajid Charfi ; translated by David Bond ; edited by Abdou Filali-Ansary and Sikeena Karmali Ahmed.

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Sharafī, ʻAbd al-Majīd

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Arabic Series: In translation (Edinburgh, Scotland)Publication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (185 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780748642076
0748642072

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Islam.DDC classification:

297.09 22

LOC classification:

BP60 .C43 2009eb

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Contents:

pt. 1. Characteristics of the message of Muhammad -- pt. 2. The message in history.

Summary: This book could easily be called 'A Guide for the Modern Muslim', for someone to whom the sentiments of his or her ancestors resonate but who cannot accept the canonised formulas of a stultified education. Charfi spells out what, for him, is the essential message of Islam, followed by a history of its unfolding through the person of the Prophet Muhammad, who was a visionary seeking to change the ideals, attitudes and behaviours of the society in which he lived. The message and its history are delineated as two separate things, conflated by tradition. Charfi's reflections cross those horizons where few Muslim scholars have dared until now to tread. He confronts with great lucidity those difficult questions with which Muslims are struggling, attempting to reconsider them from a moral and political perspective that is independent of the frameworks produced by tradition.

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Translated from the Arabic.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-179) and index.

pt. 1. Characteristics of the message of Muhammad -- pt. 2. The message in history.

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This book could easily be called 'A Guide for the Modern Muslim', for someone to whom the sentiments of his or her ancestors resonate but who cannot accept the canonised formulas of a stultified education. Charfi spells out what, for him, is the essential message of Islam, followed by a history of its unfolding through the person of the Prophet Muhammad, who was a visionary seeking to change the ideals, attitudes and behaviours of the society in which he lived. The message and its history are delineated as two separate things, conflated by tradition. Charfi's reflections cross those horizons where few Muslim scholars have dared until now to tread. He confronts with great lucidity those difficult questions with which Muslims are struggling, attempting to reconsider them from a moral and political perspective that is independent of the frameworks produced by tradition.

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