Ahmed, Shahab <br/><br/>
What Is Islam?    The Importance of Being Islamic 

 - Princeton  Princeton University Press  2017 
 - 609p 
<br/><br/> includes index and biblioraphy 
<br/><br/>Part one Questions ...3  Chapter 1 Six questions about islam ...5  Part two Coonceptualizations   Chapter 2 Islam as law , islams-not islam, islamic and islamicate., religion and culture, and civilization ...113  Chapter 3 Religion and secular, sacred and profane , theocentric and anthropocentric , total social fact, family resemblance ...176  Chapter 4 Culture, meaning, symbol system ,core and nucleuswhatever-muslims say it is discursive tradition orthodoxy process ...246  Part three Re- conceptualizations  Chapter 5 Hermeneutical engsgement, pre-text, text,and con-text meaning making for the self, spatiality of revelation, hierarchy, exteriority interiority public and private, language and vocabulary, ambivalence and ambiguity metaphor and paradox ...301  Chaoter 6Applications and implications :coherent contradiction, Exploration, Diffusion form and meaning modern ...405  The importance oif being islamic ...542 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780691178318  1911 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>SS80  / AH520