This thesis analyses a contemporary debate on the Islamization of science. The four persons discussed here are individuals belonging to a Muslim intellectual élite: the French convert and physician Maurice Bucaille, the Persian-American scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr, the British-Pakistani author Ziauddin Sardar and the Arab-American scholar Ismail Raji al-Faruqi. The debate on the role and function of a specifically Islamic form of science has intensified during the last 25 years. It can be seen as part of a broader discussion, where the overall question concerns the function of Islam in relation to modernity. This thesis presents their perspectives on the Islamization of science. The most central concept in the analysis used in this thesis is "discourse", here a technical term denoting the practice that shapes different statements, a practice concerned with power. "Islam" is seen as one such discourse, a field where many Islams fight to become the One Islamic tradition. [From the Abstract]
Vemund Aarbakke: 5558 3275 --- fax 5558 9891 Tor Aase: 5595 9358 --- fax 5595 9393 Kirsten A. Kjerland: 5558 8824 --- fax 5558 9664 Asad Asaduzzaman 5558 9265 --- fax 5558 9260 Anne K. Bang: 5558 2848 --- fax 5558 9891 Joseph N. Bell: 5558 2860 --- fax 5558 9410 Anders Bjørkelo: 5558 2318 --- fax 5558 9654 Tone Bringa: 5558 9266 --- fax 5558 9260 Eldar Bråten: 5558 9253 --- fax 5558 9260 Ragnhild B. Finnestad: 5558 2441 --- fax 5558 4742 Ingvild Gilhus: 5558 2448 --- fax 5558 4742 Alf Grannes: 5558 2341 --- fax 5558 9099 Reidar Grønhaug: 5558 9270 --- fax 5558 9260 Sharif Harir: 5558 9323 --- fax 5558 9892 Albrecht Hofheinz: 5558 3129 --- fax 5558 9891 Tomas Hägg: 5558 2292 --- fax 5558 9191 Gunnar Håland: 5558 9327 / 9261 --- fax 5558 9892 Randi Håland: 5558 2940 --- fax 5558 9656 Frode Fadnes Jacobsen: 5558 9258 --- fax 5558 9260 Herbjørn Jenssen: 5558 2860 --- fax 5558 9410 Ahmed M. Jiyad: 5558 9308 --- fax 5558 9892 Ståle Knudsen: 5558 9259 --- fax 5558 9260 Anwar Magid: 5558 9307 --- fax 5558 9892 Leif Manger: 5558 9302 --- fax 5558 9892 Richard Natvig: 5558 2449 --- fax 5558 4742 Tore Nordenstam: 5558 2385 --- fax 5558 9651 Rex Seán O'Fahey: 5558 2324 --- fax 5558 9654 Inger Marie Okkenhaug: 5558 3129* -- fax 5558 9891 Mete Pamir: 5558 2018 --- fax 5558 9425 Richard Holton Pierce: 5558 2286 --- fax 5558 9191 Arnfinn Seim: 5595 9354 --- fax 5595 9393 Ahmed Ibrahim Shouk: 5558 2989 --- fax 5558 9891 Marianne Haslev Skånland:5558 2364 --- fax 5558 9354 Einar Thomassen: 5558 2450 --- fax 5558 4742 Ludmilla Torlakova: 5558 2860 --- fax 5558 9410 Terje Tvedt: 5558 9305 --- fax 5558 9892 Knut S. Vikør: 5558 2711 --- fax 5558 9891 Vibeke Vågenes: 5595 9383 --- fax 5595 9393 * from c. 1 October
Program of Middle Eastern Languages (Arabic) 5558 9410 Dept. of Archaeology 5558 9656 Dept. of Comparative Politics 5558 9425 Dept. of Geography 5595 9393 Dept. of History 5558 9654 Dept. of Hist. of Religion, Russian & Classics, Section for History of Religions 5558 4742 Section for Greek, Latin and Egyptology 5558 9191 Section for Russian 5558 9099 Dept. of Linguistics and Literature, Sect. for Linguistics 5558 9354 Dept. of Philosophy 5558 9651 Dept. of Social Anthropology 5558 9260 Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies 5558 9891 Centre for Development Studies 5558 9892
Of course +47 in front of the number if you call from outside Norway. Notice that some Bergen scholars, namely Karin Ask, Mona Dia, Lars Gule, Are Knudsen, Dag Jørund Lønning, Toril Orrestad, Åshild Samnøy, Gunnar Sørbø and Marit Tjomsland are at the Chr. Michelsens Institute, which is independent of the University and is not affected by these changes.
Note also that here at the new fax number has not yet been installed here at the Middle East Centre. Just back from overseas, I do not yet know why or for how long, but observe that as of today, neither the old nor the new Centre fax number seems to work. We are currently reachable at fax 5558 8201. Hopefully, this is merely a temporary glitch.
Hofheinz is a Berlin student who has been at the Bergen Middle East Centre for the last three years (partly under a Council of Europe scholarship), as part of the "Sufi circle" here. His thesis concerns the Majdhubi Sufis in the eastern Sudan, which represents, he claims, a new type of relationship between scriptural Islam and the individual rural Muslims, giving the individual an inreased role of responsibility for Muslim ethics and practice.
Kamalkhani, originally from Shiraz, is a resident of Bergen of many years' standing. She did her first degree (cand.polit) in Bergen has been a research associate at the Dept. of Social Anthropology. Her topic is the development of women's role in religious practices in post-revolutionary Iran. Repeated field trips have let her discover marked developments in the way women organize their ritual life over the last fifteen years, and the development of new fora for female Islamic interaction in the local communities.
Ståle Knudsen is now settled in as Research Fellow (stipendiat) at the Dept. of Anthropology, and is reachable by his email address there, stale.knudsen@sosantr.uib.no. As we know, he is working on Black Sea fisheries in Turkey. His namesake Are Knudsen, also an anthropologist with a scholarship from the same year, is located at the Chr. Michelsens Institute, email arek@amadeus.cmi.no. They are thus not to be confused! Are K. is working on Pakistan (forestry). Notice also Kirsten Alsaker Kjerland's new telephone number (all new, not just prefix) above.
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