Said Arjomand –“Islam as a World Religion and Developmental Paths in the Islamicate Civilization”
March 04, 2015
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Committee for the Study of Religion
Abstract This lecture sketches a historicized paradigm for analyzing the relation between Islam as a world religion and the Islamicate civilization that grew around it from the Nile to the Oxus. Moving away from the monistic and ahistorical, one ideal-type one-religion approach followed by many Weberians, and applying instead Max Weber’s own notion of developmental patterns to axial civilizations in [read more»]