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100			_aErnst, Carl W.
245		0	_aRethinking islam in the contemporary world/ _cCarl W. Ernst.
260			_aEngland: _bEdinburgh University Press, _c2004.
300			_a244 p. : _bill.
505			_a1. Islam in the Eyes of the West 1 Islam as Part of the Contemporary World 2 Anti-Islamic Attitudes from Medieval Times to the Present 11 Avoiding Prejudice in Approaching Islam 28 2. Approaching Islam in Terms of Religion 37 Islam and the Modern Concept of Religion 38 Islam and the Historical Study of Religion 47 Islam Defined by the State and by the Numbers 57 Islamic Religious Language 62 3. The Sacred Sources of Islam 71 The Seal of the Prophets: The Prophet Muhammad 73 The Word of God: The Qur'an 93 4. Ethics and Life in the World 107 Islamic Religious Ethics 108 Greek Philosophy as a Source of Ethics 119 Islamic Ethics in the Colonial Age 127 The End of the Caliphate and the Concept of the Islamic State 131 Examples of Islam and the Modern State in Practice 136 Liberal Islam ^39 Gender and the Question of Veiling 142 Islam and Science 151 5. Spirituality in Practice 163 Early Sufism and the Cultivation of Mystical Experience 164 The Spirituality of Shi'ism 168 Later Sufism 74 What Is Islamic Art? 6. Postscript: Reimagining Islam in the Twenty-first Century 199 Beyond East and West 200 New Images of Islam 203 Islam and Pluralism 211
650			_aIslam.
650			_aIslam--Essence, genius, nature
942			_cWB16