Expansion of Prophetic Experience: Essays on Historicity, Contingency and Plurality in Religion
by Abdulkarim Soroush
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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 show more 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 Shari ah or selective re-interpretations of the Qur ?n. show lessTags
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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 George Town Universities; and visiting scholar at Free University of Amsterdam and ISIM (Netherlands) and Wissenschaftskollegzu Berlin. Winner of the Erasmus Prize show more (2004), Soroush was chosen one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time Magazine (2005). show less
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