A Culture of Ambiguity by Bauer, Thomas -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Foreword Introduction

Translators’ Note

1. Cultural Ambiguity

Cultural Ambiguity, the Term Ambiguity in Philosophy, Linguistics, Literary Criticism, and Literary History Tolerance of Ambiguity in Psychology Ambiguity in the Historical and Social Sciences Forms of Cultural Ambiguity in Islam

2. Does God Speak in Textual Variants?

Crises and Domestication of Ambiguity Ibn al-Jazarī’s History of the Quranic Text A Salafist History The Inexhaustible Diversity of the Variant Readings Diversity as Blessing Diversity as an Offense The “Postmodern” Tradition

3. Does God Speak Ambiguously?

The Inexhaustibility of the Quran The Theologization of Islam

4. The Blessing of Dissent

Hadith as a Theory of Probability The Theory of Probability in Islamic Law The Gift of Ambiguity

5. The Islamization of Islam 6. Language: A Serious Business and a Game

Words with Opposite Meanings Refinement and Piety Ambiguity as Stigma Training in Ambiguity

7. The Ambiguity of Sexual Desire

An Imposed—and Paradigmatic—Discourse Western Sex and Its Ambiguities The Near Eastern Plurality of Discourses Sex and the Claim to Universality The Cultural Hegemony of Western Discourse

8. The Serene Look at the World

The Perspectivality of Values Politics with and Without Religion The Ambiguity of the Stranger

9. In Quest of Certainty

The Era of Islamic Skepticism Sonderwege

Notes Bibliography Index

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