Mimetic theory and Islam: "the wound where light enters"
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Part I: The Argument -- Chapter 1: The Wound Where Light Enters: Mimetic Theory and Islam -- Part II: Texts -- Chapter 2: Islamic Anthropology, Based on Key Passages in the Qur'an -- Introduction -- Humanity in Islam -- Human Wea...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing AG
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Mimetic theory and Islam : "the wound where light enters"] (2019) (Palaver, Wolfgang, 1958 -)
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Violence-Religious aspects-Islam
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| Summary: | Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Part I: The Argument -- Chapter 1: The Wound Where Light Enters: Mimetic Theory and Islam -- Part II: Texts -- Chapter 2: Islamic Anthropology, Based on Key Passages in the Qur'an -- Introduction -- Humanity in Islam -- Human Weaknesses -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Adam and Eve in the Qur'an: A Mimetic Perspective -- Chapter 4: The Becoming of a Model: Conflictive Relations and the Shaping of the Quranic Ibrāhı̄m -- Chapter 5: Fathers and Sons, Sacrifice and Substitution: Mimetic Theory and Islam in Genesis 22 and Sura 37 -- Prologue: Girard, Islam, and Scripture -- Part One: Jewish and Christian Views of Genesis 22 -- Part Two: Islamic Views of Sura 37:83-113 -- Abraham and Anti-Idolatry -- Sacrifice of the Son -- Part Three: Parallels and Contrasts in the Scriptural Texts -- Part Four: "No God But God" -- Lâ Ilâha Illâ Allâh -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: From Structure to Interpretation of the Joseph Sura -- Part III: Traditions -- Chapter 7: Spiritual Love and Sacred Suffering: Mimetic Theory from Shı̄'ah Perspective -- Introduction -- Two Approaches to Conflictive Human Nature -- Conflicting Solutions -- Two Selves -- Ta'āruf (To Know One Another) -- To Know One Another Through Common Love and Common Beloved -- Love and Remembrance of 'Suffering For' -- Arba'ı̄n: A Wonderful Example of a Love-Based Community -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: The Philosophy of Dialogic Engagement: Two Muslim Dialogue Thinkers vis-à-vis Mimetic Theory -- Part IV: Christianity and Islam in Resentful Modernity -- Chapter 9: Islam and Islamism in the Mirror of Girard's Mimetic Theory -- Reconstructing Girard's View(s) on Islam and Islamism -- Sources -- Approaches -- Girard's Distinction Between Islamism and Islam -- The Links Between Islam and Islamism. |
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| ISBN: | 3030056953 |