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Parution : Majid Daneshgar, Aaron R. Hughes (ed), Desconstructing Islamic Studies,Harvard University Press, 2020.he study of Islam has historically been approached in two different ways: apologetical and polemical. The former focuses on the preservation and propagation of religious teachings, and the latter on the attempt to undermine the tradition. The dialectic between these two approaches continued into the Enlightenment, and the tension between them still exists today. What is new in the modern period, however, is the introduction of a third approach, the academic one, which ostensibly examines the tradition in diverse historical, religious, legal, intellectual, and philosophical contexts. Classical Islamic subjects (e.g., Qur’ān, ḥadīth, fiqh, tafsīr) are now studied using a combination of the apologetical, the polemical, and the academic approaches. Depending upon the historical period and the institutional context, these classical topics have been accepted (apologetical), have had their truth claims undermined (polemical), or have simply been taken for granted (academic).This volume, comprising chapters by leading experts, deconstructs the ways in which classical Muslim scholarship has structured (and, indeed, continues to structure) the modern study of Islam. It explores how classical subjects have been approached traditionally, theologically, and secularly, in addition to examining some of the tensions inherent in these approaches. Table of Contents  List of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionQurʾānThe Qurʾān and Its Legal Environment [David S. Powers]ḤadīthḤadīth between Traditional Muslim Scholarship and Academic Approaches [Andreas Görke]TafsīrTafsīr as Discourse: Institutions, Norms, and Authority [Johanna Pink]Overlooked Modern Persian-Shi’i Tafsīr Schools: The Maktab-e Tafkīk in Contemporary Iran [S. M. Hadi Gerami]FiqhOn Secularization of Fiqh in Contemporary Iran [Mahmoud Pargoo]KalāmKalām: Constructing Divinity [Aaron W. Hughes]TaʾrīkhHow Intellectuals Censor the Intellect: (Mis-)Representation of Traditional History and Its Consequences [Majid Daneshgar]ʿilmʿilm Is Islam: The Islamic Concept of Knowledge from Classical Traditions to Modern Interpretations [Christopher A. Furlow]AdabReconstructing Adab in Islamic Studies [Nuha Alshaar]TashayyuʿThe Good, the Bad, and the Heretic in Early Islamic History [Mushegh Asatryan]IsmāʿiliyyaIsmā’iliyya and Isma’ilism: From Polemical Portrayal to Academic Inquiry [Khalil Andani]TaṣawwufStudying Sufism beyond Orientalism, Fundamentalism, and Perennialism [Mahdi Tourag]MashriqiyyātLost Orientalism, Lost Orient, and Lost Orientals: An Overview [Majid Daneshgarhttps://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674244689&#38;content=toc