Chapter 6. The importance of being Islamic. What is Islam? ; Chapter 1. Six questions about Islam -- Part two. Conceptualizations. Chapter 2. Islam as law, islams-not-Islam, Islamic and Islamicate, religion and culture, culture and civilization ; Chapter 3. Religion and secular, sacred and profane, theocentric and anthropocentric, total social fact, family resemblance ; Chapter 4. Culture, meaning, symbol system, core and nucleus, whatever-Muslims-say-it-is, discursive tradition, orthodoxy, process -- Part three. Re-conceptualizations. Chapter 5. Hermeneutical engagement, pre-text, text, and con-text, meaning-making for the self, spatiality of revelation, hierarchy, exteriority-interiority, public and private, language and vocabulary, ambivalence and ambiguity, metaphor and paradox ; Chapter 6. Applications and implications : coherent contradiction, exploration, diffusion, form and meaning, modern ; The importance of being Islamic.
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