Author： Berg Herbert
Publisher： Brill
ISSN： 1570-0682
Source： Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, Vol.24, Iss.4-5, 2012-01, pp. : 337-356
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Abstract
Abstract Many scholars have called for more critical discourse in the study of Islam, particularly in response to post-9/11 scholarly and popular depictions of a normative, spiritual Islam in contrast to the aberrant, violent Islam. In objecting to these new representations of what Islam ought to be, these scholars promote what they believe the study of Islam ought to be. This disagreement about how to study and write about Islam is a reflection of a much more fundamental debate about the nature of the study of religion.
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