Teaching Islam.
Despite the importance of Islam in global affairs and the role of Islamic Studies in Religious Studies, little attention has been given to the basic questions of how Islam should be taught. This volume brings together a number of leading scholars of Islamic Studies with rich experience in teaching I...
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Oxford University Press,
2002
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Table of Contents:
- Contents; Contributors; Note on Conventions and Transliterations; Part One: THEORETICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL FRAMES FOR PRESENTING ISLAM IN THE RELIGIOUS STUDIES CLASSROOM; Chapter One: What Can't Be Left Out: The Essentials of Teaching Islam as a Religion; Chapter Two: On the "Introduction to Islam"; Chapter Three: Recent Critical Scholarship and the Teaching of Islam; Chapter Four: Islamicate Civilization: The View from Asia; Part Two: DIMENSIONS OF MUSLIM FAITH, COMMUNITY, AND ORDER; Chapter Five: The Essential Shari'ah: Teaching Islamic Law in the Religious Studies Classroom.
- Chapter Six: Disparity and Context: Teaching Quranic Studies in North AmericaChapter Seven: Between Orientalism and Fundamentalism: Problematizing the Teaching of Sufism; Chapter Eight: Engendering and Experience: Teaching a Course on Women in Islam; Part Three: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN TEACHING ISLAM AS A RELIGION; Chapter Nine: The Wedding of Zein: Islam through a Modern Novel; Chapter Ten: Teaching about Muslim.
