The expansion of prophetic experience : essays on historicity, contingency and plurality in religion /

Abdulkarim Soroush is known primarily for his epistemological/hermeneutical theory, the "Contraction and Expansion of Religious Knowledge," and its application to Islamic political theory and religious pluralism. While his "Reason, Freedom and Democracy in Islam "applies that the...

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Main Author: Surūsh, ʻAbd al-Karīm
Other Authors: Mobasser, Nilou, Jahanbakhsh, Forough
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the Persian.
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
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Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • -- PART I. 1. The Expansion of Prophetic Experience
  • - 2. The Last Prophet 1
  • - 3. The Last Prophet 2
  • - 4. Essentials and Accidentals in Religion
  • - 5. Maximalist Religion, Minimalist Religion
  • - 6. Straight Paths-1: an Essay on Religious Pluralism
  • - 7. Straight Paths-2: a Conversation on Religious Pluralism
  • - PART II. 8. Types of Religiosity
  • - 9. The Prophet Present
  • - 10. Prophets Unhead
  • - 11. Faith and Hope
  • - 12. Spiritual Guardianship and Political Guardianship
  • -- Appendixes.1. The Word of Mohammad. An Interview with Abdulkarim Soroush
  • - 2. Ayatollah Sobhani's First Letter
  • - 3. Bashar and Bashir, Soroush's First Response to Sobhani
  • - 4. Ayatollah Sobhani's Second Letter
  • - 5. The Parrot and the Bee. Soroush's Second Response to Sobhani.