This volume explores mimetic theory and its shared ground between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—the Abrahamic religions—which seems to have a spiritual and ethical breakthrough: a move away from scapegoating rituals and toward a concern for innocent victims. This is a move away from negative cycles of desire that lead to violence and toward positive cycles of desire that lead to communion.
The table of contents of the book is as follows:
Part I: THE ARGUMENT
1:The Wound Where Light Enters: Mimetic Theory and Islam
Michael Kirwan and Ahmad Achtar
Part II: TEXTS
2: Islamic Anthropology, based on Key Passages in the Qur’an
Zekiriga Sejdini
3: Adam and Eve in the Qur’an: A Mimetic Perspective
Ahmad Achtar
4: The Becoming of a Model: Conflictive Relations and the Shaping of the Quranic Ibrahim
Michaela Quast-Neulinger
5: Fathers and Sons, Sacrifice and Substitution: Mimetic Theory and Islam in Genesis 22 and Sura 37
Sandor Goodhart
6: From Structure to Interpretation of the Joseph Sura
Michel Cuypers
PART III: TRADITIONS
7: Spiritual Love and Sacred Suffering: Mimetic Theory from the Shi’ah Perspective
Habibollah Babaei
8: The Philosophy of Dialogic Engagement: Two Muslim Dialogue Thinkers vis-a-vis Mimetic Theory
Oemer Sener
PART IV: CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM IN RESENTFUL MODERNITY
9: Islam and Islamism in the Mirror of Girard’s Mimetic Theory
Thomas Scheffler
10: Prison Violence in France and Mimetic Theory
Yaniss Warrach
11: Muslim Brotherhood, Social Justice and Resentment
Wilhelm Guggenberger
12: Vox victima, vox moderna? Modernity and Its Discontents
Michael Kirwan
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