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Al-Din

A Prolegomenon to the Study of the History of Religions

M.A. Draz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

2023
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-0-7556-4322-6 (ISBN)

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Originally published in 1952, al-Din, by prominent Egyptian scholar Muhammad Abdullah Draz (1894–1958), has been critically acclaimed as one of the most influential Arab Muslim studies of universal 'religion' and forms of religiosity in modern times. Written as an introductory textbook for a course in the "History of Religions" at King Fuad I University in Cairo—the first of its kind offered at an Egyptian institution of higher learning—this book presents a critical overview of classical approaches to the scholarly study of religion. While ultimately adapted to an Islamic paradigm, the book is a novel attempt to construct a grand narrative about the large methodological issues of Religious Studies and the History of Religions and in relation to modernity and secularism.

Translated for the first time in English by Yahya Haidar, this book demonstrates how the scholarly academic study of religion in the West, often described as 'Orientalist', came to influence and help shape a counter-discourse from one of the leading Arab Muslim scholars of his time.

Dr. Yahya Haidar is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sciences and Liberal Arts at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Dubai, UAE. M.A. Draz (1894-1958) obtained his doctorate at the Sorbonne in Paris, before returning to Cairo where he became Professor of Islamic Studies at Al Azhar University. At his death in 1958 he had established himself as one of the world's leading Islamic scholars.

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Editor’s Introduction
M. A. Draz
Al-Din: Background, context and summary
Note on the translation

Introduction: A brief overview of the history of the study of religions
The pharaonic age
The Hellenic age
The Roman age
The Christian age
The Islamic age
The European Renaissance

1 Determining the meaning of ‘religion’

2 Religion, morality, philosophy and science
Religion and morality
Religion and philosophy
Religion and the sciences

3 Humanity’s natural religious inclination
The antiquity of religions
The future of religion in the face of scientific progress
Sources of the religious sentiment in human nature
The social function of religions

4 On the origin of belief in God
Underlying factors in the human mind
Naturalism
Animism
Psychology
Morality
Sociology
Revelation

Conclusion
Editor’s Bibliography
Author’s Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	24.02.2022
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-7556-4322-4 / 0755643224
ISBN-13	978-0-7556-4322-6 / 9780755643226
Zustand	Neuware