Epistemology or Ideology? Toward a Relational Perspective on Islamic Knowledge in Africa
This article analyzes theories and practices of Islamic knowledge as articulated among Muslims in Africa and examines the relationship between epistemology and ideology as it plays out in the field of Islamic knowledge. The paper follows three lines of investigation. First, it posits the theme of Is...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
2018
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Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 232-268 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Africa
/ Muslim
/ Knowledge communication
/ Paradigm
/ Ideology
/ Cognition theory
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AH Religious education BJ Islam FB Theological education KBL Near East and North Africa KBN Sub-Saharan Africa |
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| Summary: | This article analyzes theories and practices of Islamic knowledge as articulated among Muslims in Africa and examines the relationship between epistemology and ideology as it plays out in the field of Islamic knowledge. The paper follows three lines of investigation. First, it posits the theme of Islamic epistemologies at the center of inquiry into the transformation of Islamic knowledge practices and, by extension, of Muslim societies in Africa. Second, it distinguishes three modalities of knowing, introduced as distinct paradigms but not conceived of as given entities: the sanad (chain of transmission) paradigm, the dalīl (evidence) paradigm, and the maqāṣid (purposes, objectives) paradigm. Third, the paper proposes a relational perspective on Islamic knowledge in Africa in order to explain how the complex web of relations connecting and producing the three paradigms has yielded hybrid and, at times, even contradictory results. |
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| ISSN: | 2165-5413 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Africana religions
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