Paul L Heck
Biographic Data
| ID | 1442861 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul L Heck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul L |
| FAMILY NAME | Heck |
| SIGNATURE | HECK P L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Ethics of Weeping in Islam
Literature on weeping in Islam and emotions in general, although on the rise, is still limited. This article, focusing on Islam’s heritage of lament for sin, seeks to contribute to the study of religiously informed emotions by highlighting the interests in heavenly purposefulness that depictions of weeping seek to convey. Such purposefulness, the data suggests, is not only penitential but also redemptive and bears ethical fruits for the community…
Ummah
This study on the meaning of umma (community) seeks to offer insight from the tradition of Islam for our current global moment and the need for concepts that encourage a sense of global solidarity without, however, demanding the uniformity that the author, Jomaa, associates with the modern nation state. Ummah has much to offer not as ‘the solution’ for the prevailing sense of a divided globe but more so as a lens through which Muslims and non-Mus…
Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Khaldūn is one of very few pre-modern scholars whom we continue to take seriously as a thinker with insight for our own theorizing about the workings of human society. To be sure, his views from a past time can’t wholly explain the workings of society today, which are different in detail and structure, but there are audible echoes of his ideas in the relation of tribes to states in many regions of today’s world and also in patterns of migrati…
Routes and Realms
Keeping Faith at Princeton
"Keeping Faith at Princeton: A Brief History of Religious Pluralism at Princeton and Other Universities." The European Legacy, 19(7), pp. 931–932
Conscience across Cultures
An Early Response to Wahhabism from Morocco
In what follows, I examine a refutation of Wahhabism written during the reign of Sultan Sulaymn of Morocco (r. 1792Morocco (r. -1822) ) by one of the leading scholars of the realm, Muhammad al-Tayyib Ibn Krn of Fez (d. 1812). The treatise, which is fairly lengthy, has been mentioned only cursorily in scholarly literature, mainly in the context of a delegation Sulaymn sent in 1811 to Sad b. Abd al-Azz (r. 1803-1814) in Arabia.1 The treatise, howev…
Common Ground
Noble Character in Islam
Sufism - What Is It Exactly
Sufism is commonly called mysticism, the mysticism of Islam, but is it mysticism and what is its relation to Islam? Despite diverse expressions and modernist and reformist attempts to disassociate it from Islam, Sufism is the spirituality of Islam. Sometimes saint based, sometimes text based, it aims to bring the soul into relation with the sanctity of the other world, thus orienting it to divine truth. Sufism thus sees itself as the completion o…
Mysticism as Morality
Sufism—spiritual practice, intellectual discipline, literary tradition, and social institution—has played an integral role in the moral formation of Muslim society. Its aspiration toward a universal kindness to all creatures beyond the requirements of Islamic law has added a distinctly hypernomian dimension to the moral vision of Islam, as evidenced in a wide range of Sufi literature. The universal perspective of Sufism, fully rooted in Islamic r…
Eschatological Scripturalism and the End of Community. The Case of Early Kharijism
Jihad Revisited
This article offers an overview of the various formulations of jihad during the first six Islamic centuries (7th–13th CE), showing them to be embedded in particular socio‐historical contexts. If the essential significance of jihad as righteous cause (i.e., action for the sake of a moral order) is shown to have been variously altered according to the needs and conditions of the Muslim community, significant possibilities arise for a contemporary u…
Religious renewal in Syria
The Syrian Muammad al‐abash, member of the religious establishment and recently elected to parliament, is the leading figure in a movement of religious renewal in Syria. The Islamic vision he has articulated sheds light not only on the existence of a dynamic religious and inter‐religious debate currently taking place in Syria but also on the potential role of Islam in the development of a civil society in Syria that brooks room in the public aren…
The Construction of Knowledge in Islamic Civilization
The Construction of Knowledge in Islamic Civilization
This study examines the role of the state in the construction of knowledge in Islamic civilization in its early classical period (third/ninth and fourth/tenth centuries). Different voices representing different social groups – savants, littérateurs, religious scholars, state officials – all brought their particular conception of knowledge to bear on the formation of the various branches of knowledge known to Islamic civilization. Reading the work…
The Hierarchy of Knowledge in Islamic Civilization
T HE classification of knowledge in pre-modern Islam, in light of recent interest,' is a topic that calls for further consideration.2 Here I would like to consider the question as a function of competing social values within Islamic society, in particular those attendant upon language, as advanced by servitors of the state (al-kuttdb) as well as by proponents of the universal validity of the Arabic language. It can be said that the various social…
The Construction of Knowledge in Islamic Civilization
Email: [email protected] This study examines the role of the state in the construction of knowledge in Islamic civilization in its early classical period (third/ninth and fourth/tenth centuries). Different voices representing different social groups – savants, litterateurs, religious scholars, state officials – all brought their particular conception of knowledge to bear on the formation of the various branches of knowledge known to Islamic civ…
The Epistemological Problem of Writing in Islamic Civilization
L'a. propose une reflexion sur la transmission ecrite dans l'Islam, qu'il s'agisse d'un savoir revele ou non. Contrairement a la transmission orale, qui implique le contact direct avec un maitre, la transmission ecrite est anonyme; elle ne jouit donc pas du meme statut
Sufism - What Is It Exactly
Sufism is commonly called mysticism, the mysticism of Islam, but is it mysticism and what is its relation to Islam? Despite diverse expressions and modernist and reformist attempts to disassociate it from Islam, Sufism is the spirituality of Islam. Sometimes saint based, sometimes text based, it aims to bring the soul into relation with the sanctity of the other world, thus orienting it to divine truth. Sufism thus sees itself as the completion o…
Religious renewal in Syria
The Syrian Muammad al‐abash, member of the religious establishment and recently elected to parliament, is the leading figure in a movement of religious renewal in Syria. The Islamic vision he has articulated sheds light not only on the existence of a dynamic religious and inter‐religious debate currently taking place in Syria but also on the potential role of Islam in the development of a civil society in Syria that brooks room in the public aren…
Routes and Realms
Conscience across Cultures
An Early Response to Wahhabism from Morocco
In what follows, I examine a refutation of Wahhabism written during the reign of Sultan Sulaymn of Morocco (r. 1792Morocco (r. -1822) ) by one of the leading scholars of the realm, Muhammad al-Tayyib Ibn Krn of Fez (d. 1812). The treatise, which is fairly lengthy, has been mentioned only cursorily in scholarly literature, mainly in the context of a delegation Sulaymn sent in 1811 to Sad b. Abd al-Azz (r. 1803-1814) in Arabia.1 The treatise, howev…
The Construction of Knowledge in Islamic Civilization
Email: [email protected] This study examines the role of the state in the construction of knowledge in Islamic civilization in its early classical period (third/ninth and fourth/tenth centuries). Different voices representing different social groups – savants, litterateurs, religious scholars, state officials – all brought their particular conception of knowledge to bear on the formation of the various branches of knowledge known to Islamic civ…
The Epistemological Problem of Writing in Islamic Civilization
L'a. propose une reflexion sur la transmission ecrite dans l'Islam, qu'il s'agisse d'un savoir revele ou non. Contrairement a la transmission orale, qui implique le contact direct avec un maitre, la transmission ecrite est anonyme; elle ne jouit donc pas du meme statut
The Construction of Knowledge in Islamic Civilization
This study examines the role of the state in the construction of knowledge in Islamic civilization in its early classical period (third/ninth and fourth/tenth centuries). Different voices representing different social groups – savants, littérateurs, religious scholars, state officials – all brought their particular conception of knowledge to bear on the formation of the various branches of knowledge known to Islamic civilization. Reading the work…
The Hierarchy of Knowledge in Islamic Civilization
T HE classification of knowledge in pre-modern Islam, in light of recent interest,' is a topic that calls for further consideration.2 Here I would like to consider the question as a function of competing social values within Islamic society, in particular those attendant upon language, as advanced by servitors of the state (al-kuttdb) as well as by proponents of the universal validity of the Arabic language. It can be said that the various social…
The Construction of Knowledge in Islamic Civilization
Email: [email protected] This study examines the role of the state in the construction of knowledge in Islamic civilization in its early classical period (third/ninth and fourth/tenth centuries). Different voices representing different social groups – savants, litterateurs, religious scholars, state officials – all brought their particular conception of knowledge to bear on the formation of the various branches of knowledge known to Islamic civ…
The Epistemological Problem of Writing in Islamic Civilization
L'a. propose une reflexion sur la transmission ecrite dans l'Islam, qu'il s'agisse d'un savoir revele ou non. Contrairement a la transmission orale, qui implique le contact direct avec un maitre, la transmission ecrite est anonyme; elle ne jouit donc pas du meme statut
Jihad Revisited
This article offers an overview of the various formulations of jihad during the first six Islamic centuries (7th–13th CE), showing them to be embedded in particular socio‐historical contexts. If the essential significance of jihad as righteous cause (i.e., action for the sake of a moral order) is shown to have been variously altered according to the needs and conditions of the Muslim community, significant possibilities arise for a contemporary u…
Religious renewal in Syria
The Syrian Muammad al‐abash, member of the religious establishment and recently elected to parliament, is the leading figure in a movement of religious renewal in Syria. The Islamic vision he has articulated sheds light not only on the existence of a dynamic religious and inter‐religious debate currently taking place in Syria but also on the potential role of Islam in the development of a civil society in Syria that brooks room in the public aren…
The Construction of Knowledge in Islamic Civilization
Eschatological Scripturalism and the End of Community. The Case of Early Kharijism
Mysticism as Morality
Sufism—spiritual practice, intellectual discipline, literary tradition, and social institution—has played an integral role in the moral formation of Muslim society. Its aspiration toward a universal kindness to all creatures beyond the requirements of Islamic law has added a distinctly hypernomian dimension to the moral vision of Islam, as evidenced in a wide range of Sufi literature. The universal perspective of Sufism, fully rooted in Islamic r…
Noble Character in Islam
Sufism - What Is It Exactly
Sufism is commonly called mysticism, the mysticism of Islam, but is it mysticism and what is its relation to Islam? Despite diverse expressions and modernist and reformist attempts to disassociate it from Islam, Sufism is the spirituality of Islam. Sometimes saint based, sometimes text based, it aims to bring the soul into relation with the sanctity of the other world, thus orienting it to divine truth. Sufism thus sees itself as the completion o…
Common Ground
An Early Response to Wahhabism from Morocco
In what follows, I examine a refutation of Wahhabism written during the reign of Sultan Sulaymn of Morocco (r. 1792Morocco (r. -1822) ) by one of the leading scholars of the realm, Muhammad al-Tayyib Ibn Krn of Fez (d. 1812). The treatise, which is fairly lengthy, has been mentioned only cursorily in scholarly literature, mainly in the context of a delegation Sulaymn sent in 1811 to Sad b. Abd al-Azz (r. 1803-1814) in Arabia.1 The treatise, howev…
Routes and Realms
Keeping Faith at Princeton
"Keeping Faith at Princeton: A Brief History of Religious Pluralism at Princeton and Other Universities." The European Legacy, 19(7), pp. 931–932
Conscience across Cultures
Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Khaldūn is one of very few pre-modern scholars whom we continue to take seriously as a thinker with insight for our own theorizing about the workings of human society. To be sure, his views from a past time can’t wholly explain the workings of society today, which are different in detail and structure, but there are audible echoes of his ideas in the relation of tribes to states in many regions of today’s world and also in patterns of migrati…
Ummah
This study on the meaning of umma (community) seeks to offer insight from the tradition of Islam for our current global moment and the need for concepts that encourage a sense of global solidarity without, however, demanding the uniformity that the author, Jomaa, associates with the modern nation state. Ummah has much to offer not as ‘the solution’ for the prevailing sense of a divided globe but more so as a lens through which Muslims and non-Mus…
The Ethics of Weeping in Islam
Literature on weeping in Islam and emotions in general, although on the rise, is still limited. This article, focusing on Islam’s heritage of lament for sin, seeks to contribute to the study of religiously informed emotions by highlighting the interests in heavenly purposefulness that depictions of weeping seek to convey. Such purposefulness, the data suggests, is not only penitential but also redemptive and bears ethical fruits for the community…
Islamic Studies and History (16 works) · Islam (15 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Theology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Religious studies (9 works)