The History of Islam Revelation, Reconstruction or Both? /

• Main Authors: Lovat, Terence (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Moghadam, Amir (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Religious Studies,
• Subjects: Religion and sociology.; Islam.; Church and education.; Sociology of Religion.; Religion and Education.

This book applies philosophical and critical textual scholarship to the traditional Islamic narrative in an attempt to distinguish between its historical and interpretive elements. It allows the narrative to be preserved with due respect for its significance and distinctiveness, but in a way that fr...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. The Conceptual Argument: Re-defining Religious Narrative
• Chapter 2. Methodological Foundations: Analysing Religious Narrative
• Chapter 3. The History as Islam's Inspirational Religious Narrative
• Chapter 4. Understanding The History through Updated Narrative Analysis
• Chapter 5. The History's Early Influence on Islam
• Chapter 6. Doing Justice to The History: The Effects of Narrative Literalism and its Opposite.