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  title info:
    title: Studying the Qur'an in the Muslim Academy
  name:
    name part: Daneshgar, Majid
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Apologetic writings
  genre: Apologetic writings.
  genre: Écrits apologétiques.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxvii, 191 pages)
  abstract: Studying the Qur'ān in the Muslim Academy examines what it is like to study and teach the Qur'ān at academic institutions in the Muslim world and how politics affect scholarly interpretations of the text. Guided by the author's own journey as a student, university lecturer, and researcher in Iran, Malaysia, and New Zealand, this book provides vivid accounts of the complex academic politics he encountered. Majid Daneshgar describes the selective translation and editing of Edward Said's classic work Orientalism into various Islamic languages, and the way Said's work is weaponized to question the credibility of contemporary Western-produced scholarship in Islamic studies. Daneshgar also examines networks of journals, research centers, and universities in both Sunni and Shi'i contexts, and looks at examples of Qur'anic interpretation there. Ultimately, he offers a constructive program for enriching Islamic studies by fusing the best of Western theories with the best philological practices developed in Muslim academic contexts, aimed at encouraging respectful but critical engagement with the Qur'ān. --Dust jacket Inside front flap.
  table of contents: Preface -- Introduction -- 1. 'Islamic Apologetics' and Islamic Studies -- 2. The Qur'an in the Muslim Academy: What Should be Censored? -- 3. The Sectarian Study of Islam: A Culture of Isolation and the Isolation of Cultures -- 4. Hatred of Inferiority and Confrontation with the West: Forgetting Some; Remembering Others -- Final Remarks -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: Majid Daneshgar.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-181) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Islam
    topic: Study and teaching
  subject:
    topic: Islam
    genre: Apologetic works
  subject:
    topic: Islam
    topic: Étude et enseignement
  subject:
    topic: Islam
    genre: Ouvrages apologétiques
  subject:
    topic: Islam
  subject:
    topic: Islam
    topic: Apologetic works
  subject:
    topic: Islam
    topic: Study and teaching
  classification: BP42 .D36 2020
  classification: 297.071
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 2019012350
    identifier: (OCoLC)1090697341
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  identifier: 9780190067564
  identifier: 019006756X
  identifier: 9780190067540
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  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
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    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 190829
    record change date: 20260319181329.2
    record identifier: in00005717713
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng