Paul Heck
Biographic Data
| ID | 5194759 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Heck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Heck |
| SIGNATURE | HECK P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Labor and Religious Tolerance in Two Senegalese Daaras
How do people create their religious selves and a religious culture through their everyday practices and discourses? This article examines residents of two rural daaras (Sufi religious communities) in Senegal and their focus on labor and tolerance as religious practice. It uses concepts of tradition, performativity, and citation to trace the themes of labor and tolerance through historical, political, and present-day applications in Senegal. How …
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…
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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…
Labor and Religious Tolerance in Two Senegalese Daaras
How do people create their religious selves and a religious culture through their everyday practices and discourses? This article examines residents of two rural daaras (Sufi religious communities) in Senegal and their focus on labor and tolerance as religious practice. It uses concepts of tradition, performativity, and citation to trace the themes of labor and tolerance through historical, political, and present-day applications in Senegal. How …
Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Civilization (2 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (2 works) · Islam (2 works) · Islamic Studies and History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Social science (2 works)