The Expansion of Prophetic Experience

Essays on Historicity, Contingency and Plurality in Religion
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17105-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 358 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 794 g

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 theory to plurality and the historicity of understanding and interpretation of religion, this book captures some of his original theories about religion itself. 'The Expansion of Prophetic Experience' treats the historicity of the Prophet Muhammad’s revelatory experience, including human and contextual influences on the genesis of the sacred Text. It presents substantial aspects of Soroush’s Neo-Rationalist hermeneutical project for an Islamic reformed theology and ethics, systematically leading Islamic reformation beyond conventional projects of piecemeal adjustments to the ShariÊ¿ah or selective re-interpretations of the QurʾÄn.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Soroush, Abdulkarim

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Philosophie & Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Islamische & Arabische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Theologie

Über Autor(innen)

Abdulkarim Soroush was professor of Islamic Philosophy at the Academy of Philosophy (Tehran, Iran). He has since 2000 been visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Georgetown Universities; and visiting scholar at Free University of Amsterdam and ISIM (Netherlands) and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Winner of the Erasmus Prize (2004), Soroush was chosen one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by (2005).