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050		4	_aBP161.3 _b.M43 2013
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100	1		_aMeddeb, Abdelwahab.
245	1	0	_aIslam and the challenge of civilization _h[electronic resource] / _cAbdelwahab Meddeb ; translated by Jane Kuntz.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York [N.Y.] : _bFordham University Press, _c2013 _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject Muse _g2013) _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (1 electronic text (xi, 175 p.) :) _bdigital file.
500			_aIssued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0		_aReligion and violence -- The Koran as myth -- The clash of interpretations -- On the Arab decline -- Civilization or extinction -- Enlightenment between high and low voltage -- The physics and metaphysics of nature -- Epilogue: religion and cosmopolitics -- Appendixes. The veil unveiled: dialogue with Christian Jambet -- Obama in Cairo.
520			_aAbdelwahab Meddeb makes an urgent case for an Islamic reformation, located squarely in Western Europe, now home to millions of Muslims, where Christianity and Judaism have come to coexist with secular humanism and positivist law. He is not advocating "moderate" Islam, which he characterizes as thinly disguised Wahabism, but rather an Islam inspired by the great Sufi thinkers, whose practice of religion was not bound by doctrine. To accomplish this, Meddeb returns to the doctrinal question of the text as transcription of the uncreated word of God and calls upon Muslims to distinguish between Islam's spiritual message and the temporal, material, and historically grounded origins of its founding scriptures. He contrasts periods of Islamic history--when philosophers and theologians engaged in lively dialogue with other faiths and civilizations, and contributed to transmitting the Hellenistic tradition to early modern Europe--with modern Islam's collective amnesia of this past. Meddeb wages a war of interpretations in this book, in his attempt to demonstrate that Muslims cannot join the concert of nations unless they set aside outmoded notions such as jihad and realize that feuding among the monotheisms must give way to the more important issue of what it means to be a citizen in today's post-religious global setting.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aIslamic renewal.
650		0	_aMuslims _zNon-Muslim countries.
650		0	_aIslamic civilization.
650		0	_aIslam _y21st century.
655		0	_aElectronic books.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
700	1		_aKuntz, Jane.
710	2		_aProject Muse.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z0823251233 _z9780823251230
710	2		_aProject Muse.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780823251247/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c31658 _d31658