The Qurʼan and the West

The Qurʼan and the West /

"For six decades Kenneth Cragg has been recognized and praised as one of the West's most gifted interpreters of Islam. In this latest work, Cragg argues that the West must put aside a "spiritual imperialism" that draws on western prescripts alien of Muslims and "learn to com...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cragg, Kenneth, 1913-2012
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Qurʼan > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Qurʼan > Commentaries.
Qurʼan > Study and teaching > Europe.
Qurʼan.
Islam.
Kulturkontakt.
Study skills.
Westliche Welt.
Europe.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Commentaries.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • A deep divide in a single situation
  • Humans who occupy : not gods who own
  • Legitimate selfhood
  • 'Whisperings in the bosom'
  • The vital point of the secular
  • The burdened significance of words
  • Where the heart has its reasonings
  • The onus of necessary shape, art and ritual
  • The table and the memory
  • Journeying the distance
  • Divinely liable politics
  • Our humanly liable lord
  • Afterword.

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