Relationality and the Gadamerian “Horizontverschmelzung”: Khaled Abou El Fadl

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[1] Ahmed, A. (1992) Postmodernism and Islam: Predicament and Promise. London: Routledge.

[2] Ahmed, S. (2016) What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

[3] Almond, I. (2007) The New Orientalists: Postmodern Representations of Islam from Foucault to Baudrillard. New York: I. B. Tauris.

[4] Bourdieu, P. (1999) Weight of the World: Social Suffering in Contemporary Society. Cambridge: Polity.

[5] Campanini, M. (2016) Philosophical Perspectives on Modern Qur'ānic Exegesis: Key Paradigms and Concepts. London: Equinox.

[6] Duderija, A. (2014) Contemporary Muslim reformist thought and Maqasid cum Maslaha approaches to Islamic law: An introduction. In Duderija, A. (ed.), Maqasid al-Shari'a and Contemporary Reformist Muslim Thought: An Examination. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1-12.

[7] Fadl, K. A. (2001) And God Knows the Soldiers: The Authoritative and Authoritarian in Islamic Discourse. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

[8] Fadl, K. A. (2003) Speaking in God's Name: Islamic Law, Authority, and Women. Oxford: Oneworld Publications.

[9] Fadl, K. A. (2004) Islam and the Challenge of Democracy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

[10] Fadl, K. A. (2005) The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists. New York: HarperCollins. Fadl, K. A. (2006) The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

[11] Fadl, K. A. (2011) The Culture of Ugliness in Modern Islam. 4 May. https://www.abc.net.au/religion/the-culture-of-ugliness-in-modern-islam/10101486 (accessed 26 October 2018).

[12] Fadl, K. A. (2012). Injustice in God's Name: The Corruption of Modern Islam. 24 September.https://www.abc.net.au/religion/injustice-in-gods-name-the-corruption-of-modern-islam/10100290 (accessed 26 October 2018).

[13] Fadl, K. A. (2014) Reasoning with God: Reclaiming Shari'ah in the Modern Age. London: Rowman & Littlefield.

[14] Fadl, K. A. (2017) Qur'anic ethics and Islamic law. Journal of Islamic Ethics. 1 (1/2), 7-28. doi:10.1163/24685542-12340002

[15] Fadl, K. A. (2018) The Pursuit of Happiness: Islamic Ethics for the Modern World. 4 September. https://www.abc.net.au/religion/the-pursuit-of-happiness-islamic-ethics-for-the-modern-world/10214278 (accessed 26 October 2018).

[16] Gadamer, H.-G. (1989) Truth and Method, 2nd revised ed., translated by J. W. Marshall. New York: Crossroad.

[17] Hallaq, W. (2005) The Origins and Evolution of Islamic Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[18] Hallaq, W. (2009) Shari'a: Theory, Practice, Transformations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[19] King, R. (1999) Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India, and “the Mystic East”. London: Routledge.

[20] Lammi, W. (1991) Hans-Georg Gadamer's “Correction” of Heidegger. Journal of the History of Ideas. 52 (3), 487-507. doi:10.2307/2710048

[21] Levinas, I. (1968) Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority. Translated by A. Lingis. Pittburgh: Duquesne University Press.

[22] Naguib, S. (2015) Bint al-Shati's approach to tafsir: An Egyptian exegete's journey from hermeneutics to humanity. Journal of Qur'anic Studies. 45-84.

[23] Nash, G. (2012) Writing Muslim Identity. London: Continuum International.

[24] Palmer, R. (1969) Hermeneutics: Interpretation Theory in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger, and Gadamer. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.

[25] al-Qahtani, M. b. (2015) Understanding Maqasid al-Shari'ah: A Contemporary Perspective. Herndon, VA: International Institute of Islamic Thought.

[26] Said, E. (1978) Orientalism. New York: Penguin.

[27] Said, E. (1981) Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How we See the Rest of the World. London: Vintage Books.

[28] Said, E. (1993) Culture and Imperialism. New York: Vintage Books.

[29] Shah-Kazemi, R. (2004) Review of: Conference of the Books by Khaled Abou El Fadl. Journal of Islamic Studies. 15 (2), 220-1. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jis/15.2.220

[30] Slater, A. M. (2016a) Khaled Abou El Fadl's methodology of reform. Journal of Law, Religion and State. 4 (3), 293-321. doi:10.1163/22124810-00403003

[31] Slater, A. M. (2016b) Queer(ing) notions of Islamic authority: A methodological disposition in the work of Khaled Abou El Fadl. Theology and Sexuality. 22 (1/2), 25-41. doi:13558358.2017.1296686

[32] Tibi, B. (2005) Islam between Culture and Poilitics, 2nd ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

[33] Tibi, B. (2009) Islam's Predicament with Modernity: Religious Reform and Cultural Change. London: Routledge.

[34] Vessey, D. (2009) Gadamer and the fusion of horizons. International Journal of Philosophical Studies 17 (4), 531-42.

[35] Weiss, B. G. (2008) Text and application: Hermeneutical reflections on Islamic legal interpretations. In Peri Bearman, B. G. (ed.), The Law Applied: Contextualising the Islamic Shari'a - A Volume in Honour of Frank E. Vogel. London: I. B. Tauris, 374-96.

[36] Wild, S. (1996) The Qu'ran as Text, edited by S. Wild. Leiden: Brill.