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Index
Cover
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd: An Introduction to His Life and Work
Critique of Religious Discourse
Dedication
Introduction
1. Contemporary Religious Discourse: Its Strategies and Intellectual Premises
First: The Strategies Used in the Discourse
Conflating Ideas and Religion
Explaining All Phenomena by Reference to One Starting Point
Reliance on the Authority of Tradition and the Early Muslims
Intellectual Dogmatism
Dismissing the Historical Dimension
Second: The Intellectual Premises
Divine Sovereignty
The Text and Nass
2. Tradition Interpreted or Colored: A Reading of the Project of the Islamic Left
Interpretation: The Linguistic Sense and the Technical Sense
Coloring: A Tendentious Reading
Productive Readings
The Islamic Left and the Priorities of Religious Discourse
The past and the Present: The Root and the Branch
Tradition: A Construct of Consciousness or a Historical Construct
Tradition: Rebuilding or a Fresh Coat of Paint
The Texts: Interpretation or Coloring
Syncretism: Success and Failure
3. Reading Religious Texts: An Exploratory Study of Types of Meaning
Notes
Index
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