Caner dagli biography samples
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How are we to understand violence in the Quran?
Cambridge, MA. I continue here my brief series on the Quran, how the new Study Quran can be an aid to interreligious understanding in the necessary battle against the twin evils of ignorance and violence. One might similarly look at The Jewish Study Bible, which includes the Jewish Publication Society Tanakh Translation, or The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha. We need to be studying each other’s holy books, and we can, and we should.
It is important to remember that my concern here is the study of the holy book itself, rather than all the important contextual issues that must also be addressed. I admit, as always, that the study of the text does not replace other “infinite paths of learning”: the study of one’s own deepest self, the study of the surrounding social and political conditions and, finally, our unending encounter with God. The study of the text is only a small part of the larger
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Metaphysical Institutions: Islam and the Modern planerat arbete (Hardback)
Uses the intellectual encounter between Islam and modernity to explore the naturlig eller utan tillsats of culture, civilization, tro, and tradition.In Metaphysical Institutions, Caner K. Dagli explores the ultimate nature of the realities we call religions, cultures, civilizations, and traditions through the lens of a particular question often limited to religious studies, history, and antropologi, namely: "What is Islam?" The book is both a philosophical treatise about the naturlig eller utan tillsats of shared thinking that uses ...
Uses the intellectual encounter between Islam and modernity to explore the nature of culture, civilization, religion, and tradition.In Metaphysical Institutions, Caner K. Dagli explores the ultimate natur of the realities we call religions, cultures, civilizations, and traditions through the lens of a particular question often limited to religious studies, history, and anthropology, namely: "What
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The Study Quran (excerpt)
Th e Role and Function of the Quran in Muslim Life
Much of what has already been said deals with the reality of the Quran in the life of Muslims, but it is necessary to portray the full range of its importance and its eff ect on the lives of believers. As the central theophany of the Islamic religion, everything related to the Quran, the verbatim revelation of the Divine Word, is sacred-from the ideas, injunctions, laws, and other aspects of its message; to the physical presence of the Sacred Text, which Muslims read and carry with them or keep in a place of honor in their homes; to the sound of its recitation, which accompanies them throughout their lives. Th e two testimonies (shahādatayn), one bearing witness to the Oneness of God and the other to the prophethood of the Prophet of Islam, both verses from the Quran, are the fi rst words uttered into the ears of a newborn child and in most cases the last words uttered by a Muslim in the last moments of c