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Islam and the West

A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444). This special issue belongs to the section "Religions and Humanities/Philosophies".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 March 2024) | Viewed by 7573

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Prof. Dr. Paul Mendes-Flohr

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1. Dorothy Grant Professor Emeritus of Modern Jewish Intellectual History and Religious Thought, Associate Faculty in the Department of History, Divinity School, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
2. Professor Emeritus, Department of Jewish Thought, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9190501, Israel
Interests: modern Jewish intellectual history; modern Jewish philosophy and religious thought; philosophy of religion; German intellectual history; the history and sociology of intellectuals
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Dear Colleagues,

We cordially invite you to consider contributing to the Special Issue on Islam and the West. The wounds inflected on the Islamic world by Western imperialism still fester. They have, alas, yet to be genuinely addressed. This Special Issue seeks to probe and adumbrate discursive horizons allowing for a healing of the political and cultural legacy that continues to burden the relation between Islam and the West. In this regard, we will also ask what may be learned from the irenic relations between Jews and Muslims that prevailed in the Arabic-speaking world at least until the rise of Zionism under the tutelage of British and French colonialism. Among other questions that may be addressed in the symposium is whether the relation between the Byzantine Eastern Church and Islam substantially differed from that of Western Latin Christianity which for two centuries set siege on Islam under the banner of crusades to rescue the Holy Land from the hands of “Arabian pagans”.

Prof. Dr. Paul Mendes-Flohr
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • the latin church
  • the eastern church
  • jewish–muslim relations
  • orientalism (western perceptions of Islam)

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An Arab Jew Reads the Quran: On Isaac Yahuda’s Hebrew Commentary on the Islamic Scripture
by Mostafa Hussein
Religions 2024, 15(4), 495; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15040495 - 17 Apr 2024
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How did an Arab Jew read the Quran against the backdrop of contradictory ideologies and the rise of key movements, including nationalism, colonialism, and Zionism, in Mandate Palestine? Approaching Isaac Yahuda as an Arab Jew challenges the binary opposition between Arabs and Jews [...] Read more.
How did an Arab Jew read the Quran against the backdrop of contradictory ideologies and the rise of key movements, including nationalism, colonialism, and Zionism, in Mandate Palestine? Approaching Isaac Yahuda as an Arab Jew challenges the binary opposition between Arabs and Jews in Zionist discourse, a linkage perceived as inconceivable, and on the other hand, that linkage is asserted, contested, and tested in the context of nationalism. This article also challenges the advancement of Jewish singularity and superiority by exploring how Jewish writers interacted with the Islamic scripture in Mandatory Palestine rather than dismissing it. This article examines Hebrew interpretation of various passages from the Quran that produced an understanding of the Quran that advanced Zionist ideals, including the nationalization of contested religious sites and the consolidation of the indigeneity of Jews in the East. Isaac Yahuda’s Hebrew commentary on the Quran challenged his Arab Jewishness in such a divisive nationalist atmosphere in Mandate Palestine. His hybrid background and dynamic connections with both Jews and Arabs enabled him to navigate these turbulent times by invoking the Quran, demonstrating respect for it, and at the same time challenging the understanding of his contemporary Muslims while utilizing German Jewish scholarship on the origins of Islam. Full article
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From Daʿwah to Shahādah: A Move beyond Vatican II and the Common Word
by Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour
Religions 2024, 15(4), 469; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15040469 - 10 Apr 2024
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The Second Vatican Council and the Common Word document constitute turning points in the history of Christian–Muslim Relations. Nostra Aetate and Lumen Gentium appealed to a shared Abrahamic heritage between Christianity and Islam, and the Common Word appealed to a God-based theology, as [...] Read more.
The Second Vatican Council and the Common Word document constitute turning points in the history of Christian–Muslim Relations. Nostra Aetate and Lumen Gentium appealed to a shared Abrahamic heritage between Christianity and Islam, and the Common Word appealed to a God-based theology, as opposed to the long-standing Prophet-based theology. Authorities in both traditions did so in the search for a shared theological foundation. While the article recognizes the vitality of the two steps, it equally recognizes that there is still much that can be done to advance Christian–Muslim relations. In this context, this article aims to achieve three primary goals: first, to demonstrate the successes of the two initiatives; second, to critically engage with them by examining their limitations; and third, to suggest “practical theology” as a medium through which the aspirations of Vatican II and the Common Word can reach a greater audience. In doing so, it proposes the concept of shahādah “bearing witness”, as opposed to the Islamic concept of daʿwah “making invitation” and the Christian concepts of preaching and messianism. Full article
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Islam and the Challenge of Epistemic Sovereignty
by Joseph E. B. Lumbard
Religions 2024, 15(4), 406; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15040406 - 26 Mar 2024
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The search for knowledge has been central to the Islamic tradition from its inception in the Quran and the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (aḥādīth). The injunctions to obtain knowledge and contemplate the signs of God in all things undergird a [...] Read more.
The search for knowledge has been central to the Islamic tradition from its inception in the Quran and the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (aḥādīth). The injunctions to obtain knowledge and contemplate the signs of God in all things undergird a culture of ultimate questions in which there was an underlying epistemic unity among all fields of knowledge, from the religious sciences to the intellectual sciences to the natural sciences. Having lost sight of the underlying metaphysic that provides this epistemic unity, many thinkers in the modern period read the classical Islamic texts independently of the cognitive cartography and hierarchy of which they are a part. This approach leads to further misunderstandings and thus to a sense of hermeneutical gloom and epistemic subordination characteristic of coloniality. Postcolonial theory provides effective tools for diagnosing the process by which this epistemic erosion produces ideologically and epistemically conscripted subjects. But as it, too, arises from within a secular frame, it is only by understanding the cognitive cartography of the sciences within Islam that epistemic confidence and sovereignty can be reinstated. Full article
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