The Dynamics of Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy. Dealing with Divergence in Muslim Discourses and Islamic Studies

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ID3893253
AuthorsUdo Simon (0000-0002-6118-0573, 1Heidelberg), Robert Langer (0000-0003-4255-0492, 2Heidelberg)
Year2008
Volume48
Issue3
Pages273-288
Publication date2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDie Welt des Islams (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0043-2539 • E-ISSN: 1570-0607
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/157006008x364758
OpenAlexW1981278769
LanguageEN
Citations received13

right belief. Decision-making is quite different from what one finds in Eastern Christendom, from whence the notion is borrowed. The term orthodox seems to be out of place in Islamic studies.2 More over, the versus heresy scheme is denounced as a dichotomy of Eurocentric interpretive categories that fails to grasp the pluralism and complexity characteristic of Muslim religious life. Instead, it is argued, one should let Islamic tradition speak for itself.3 Where a timeless and a-historical notion of orthodoxy prevails, Western Islamicists even in our day would continue to describe hete rodoxy as its corrupted surrogate.4

Divergence (linguistics) · Epistemology · Heresy · Heterodoxy · Islam · Orthodoxy · Pluralism (philosophy) · Religious pluralism · Sociology · Theology · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies

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