Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

Rethinking, Reconfiguring and Popularizing Islam: Religious Thought of a Contemporary Indian Shi‘ite Scholar; Syed Ali Naqi Naqvi [Naqan]

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• ABSTRACT
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• Biography of ‘Ali Naqvi
• The Crisis of Religion and ‘Ali Naqvi’s Reconfiguring of Islamic Tradition
• Outline of the Chapters
• Literature in the Field
• CHAPTER I: ‘ALI NAQVI’S RECEPTION OF THE CRISIS OF RELIGION
• Introduction
• India Going through Unprecedented Change
• The Crisis of Religion (mazhab)
• Missionaries, Religious Pluralism, and Attacks on Islam
• The Crisis of Religious Authority
• Irreligiosity, Materialism and Westernization
• The Problem of Muslim Disunity
• Concluding Remarks
• Chapter II: Hermeneutics of the Religio-Intellectual Project and the Relationship between Intellect and Revelation
• Introduction
• Relationship between the Intellect and Mazhab (Religion)
• The Indispensability of the Intellect
• Why Intellect, Whence its Centrality?
• Limitations of the Intellect
• Concluding Remarks on the Relationship between Religion and the Intellect
• ‘Ali Naqvi’s Hermeneutics: Some Concluding Remarks
• Chapter III: Mapping Religion onto Life: Religion as Sagacious Ordering of Life
• Introduction
• PART I: Overcoming Dichotomies: ‘Ali Naqvi’s Islah of the Concept of Religion
• Introduction
• What Religion is not? Prevailing Misunderstandings about the Reality of Religion
• The All-Encompassing Ambit of Religion
• Overcoming the Faith-Works Dichotomy
• Argument I: Principles and Branches of Religion (Usul-furu‘) and the Complementarity of Faith and Works (‘aqida wa ‘amal)
• Argument II: Widening the Meaning of Worship
• Concluding Remarks: Toward a Renewed Understanding of Religion
• PART II: Indispensability of Religion for Human Civilization: Religion as Sagacious Ordering of Life
• PART I: Religion and the Order of Life: Mapping Religion onto Life
• Hierarchy of Knowledge and Primacy of Religion
• Part II: Question of Change
• Concluding Remarks
• CHAPTER IV: THE HUSAYNI-ISLAH PARADIGM: REVIVING ISLAM THROUGH KARBALA
• INTRODUCTION
• PART I: HISTORICIZING MYTHOLOGY: ‘ALI NAQVI’S RECONFIGURATION OF THE SHI‘I LAMENTATIONS
• WHY KARBALA?
• WHICH KARBALA? ‘ALI NAQVI’S ISLAH OF THE KARBALA - COMMEMORATION
• The Historical Argument
• The Religious Argument
• The Relationship between the Two Arguments
• The Karbala Paradigm and Sociopolitical Activism
• The True Purpose of Karbala-Commemorations
• PART II: MYTHOLOGIZING HISTORY: ETHICORELIGIOUS IMPLICATIONS OF THE HUSAYNI-ISLAH PARADIGM
• CONCLUSION: The Relationship between ‘Ali Naqvi’s Reconfiguration of Islamic Theology and Praxis and the Husayni-islah Paradigm
• CHAPTER V: THE LATER WRITINGS AND ‘ALI NAQVI’S ISLAH OF THE SOCIETY
• Introduction
• PART I: AN OVERVIEW OF ‘ALI NAQVI’S LATER WRITINGS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE EARLIER WRITINGS
• Continuities
• The Qur’anic Commentary
• Rethinking Islam’s Sacred History
• Concluding Remarks (Part I)
• PART II: ‘ALI NAQVI’S SOCIAL REFORM
• Why Social Reform?
• How to Carryout Social Reform?
• Illustrating ‘Ali Naqvi’s Reform of Shi’i Culture
• The Issue of Governance
• Concluding Remarks
• CONCLUSION: A COMPREHENSIVE ISLAH? REFLECTIONS ON ‘ALI NAQVI’S THOUGHT AND LEGACY
• Popularizing the Reconfigured Message
• Reflections on ‘Ali Naqvi’s Religio-Intellectual Project
• ‘Ali Naqvi’s Legacy
• APPENDICES
• Appendix I: Household of Ijtihad (Source: S.A.A. Rizvi [1986])
• APPENDIX II
• Bibliography
• Selected Writings of Ayatullah ‘Ali Naqi Naqvi
• Secondary Sources
• NOTES
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER I: ‘ALI NAQVI’S RECEPTION OF THE CRISIS OF RELIGION
• Chapter II: Hermeneutics of the Religio-Intellectual Project and the Relationship between Intellect and Revelation
• Chapter III: Mapping Religion onto Life: Religion as Sagacious Ordering of Life
• CHAPTER IV: THE HUSAYNI-ISLAH PARADIGM: REVIVING ISLAM THROUGH KARBALA
• CHAPTER V: THE LATER WRITINGS AND ‘ALI NAQVI’S ISLAH OF THE SOCIETY
• CONCLUSION: A COMPREHENSIVE ISLAH? REFLECTIONS ON ‘ALI NAQVI’S THOUGHT AND LEGACY
• APPENDIX II