Contrapuntal Readings in Muslim Thought: Translations and Transitions
Author: Moosa, Ebrahim
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 74, Number 1, March 2006 , pp. 107-118(12)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Abstract:
A diverse and cosmopolitan world, in the best sense of the terms, requires the production of knowledge that will sustain such complexity. Central to such a goal is to ask how we relate to formative documents and exemplars located in a distant past. Historians and interpreters have identified the reading of texts as one of the major challenges. The demands of continuity within traditions and commitment to canons while also being open to creativity are another set of challenges. In fact, the past becomes contested precisely because the present is a contested zone. In order to resist the homogenization of both the past and the present, we require sensitive tools and theoretical applications. If not, we tend to colonize the past and announce the death of certain forms of knowledge (epistemicide) while privileging and preserving other kinds of knowledge as a result of the conjunctions of knowledge and power. Engaging in contrapuntal readings and acknowledging the processes of transculturation could be one way to minimize such deleterious effects.Keywords: communicable disease; BCG; healthcare workers; gonococci; E. coli O157; radiation
Document Type: Research article
DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfj027
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