- University of North Carolina Press
Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace
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- Irfan Ahmad
- University of North Carolina Press
- Hardcover
- 9781469635088
- 9.21 X 6.14 X 0.81 inches
- 1.41 pounds
- Religion > Islam - General
- English
Book Description
On a broader level, Ahmad expands the idea of critique itself. Drawing on his fieldwork among marketplace hawkers in Delhi and Aligarh, he construes critique anthropologically as a sociocultural activity in the everyday lives of ordinary Muslims, beyond the world of intellectuals. Religion as Critique allows space for new theoretical considerations of modernity and change, taking on such salient issues as nationhood, women's equality, the state, culture, democracy, and secularism.
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