Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet's Legacy - Couverture rigide

Brown, Jonathan A.C.

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9781780744209: Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet's Legacy

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ISBN 10 : 178074420X ISBN 13 : 9781780744209

Editeur : Oneworld Publications, 2014

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Revue de presse :

'Eminently qualified... Brown eloquently parses Islam's rich interpretive tradition.'

(Kirkus Reviews)

Lucid, learned and engaging

(Karen Armstrong, Sunday Times)

There aren't many books on Islam where the Prophet Muhammad and Martin Scorsese appear together... helpful for the lay reader

(Independent)

Erudite and provocative... compelling

(Literary Review)

Superb... an essential read for anyone seeking to understand Islam and the Muslim world... fascinating

(Tribune)

an inside view into how key controversial aspects of how Islam took shape

(Asian Art Newspaper) --Kirkus

'Misquoting Muhammad makes the important point that what many Muslims believe to be essential tenets of their faith are often nothing of the sort'

(Independent, best books of the year) --Independent, best books of the year

'Brown possesses formidable knowledge of premodern Muslim scholars who sought to preserve accounts of Muhammad s teachings and practices ... MISQUOTING MUHAMMAD sheds light on the considerable dynamism and sophistication within the Sunni tradition.'

(Washington Post) --Washington Post

Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

Few things provoke controversy in the modern world like the religion brought by Muhammad. Modern media are replete with alarm over jihad, underage marriage and the threat of amputation or stoning under Shariah law. Sometimes rumor, sometimes based in fact and often misunderstood, the tenets of Islamic law and dogma were not set in the religion's founding moments. They were developed over centuries by the clerical class of Muslim scholars. Misquoting Muhammad takes the reader back in time through Islamic civilization and traces how and why such controversies developed, offering an inside view into how key and controversial aspects of Islam took shape. From the protests of the Arab Spring to Istanbul at the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and from the ochre red walls of Delhi's great mosques to the trade routes of Islam's Indian Ocean world, Misquoting Muhammad lays out how Muslim intellectuals have sought to balance reason and revelation, weigh science and religion, and negotiate the eternal truths of scripture amid shifting values.

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