Islamic Reformation?

Herausgeber: Browers, Michaelle; Kurzman, Charles

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together scholars with expertise in modern Islamic thought and practice to evaluate the claim that we are witnessing something tantamount to an 'Islamic Reformation,' by assessing the character and impact of various reformist trends in the Middle East and North Africa. Each chapter also addresses the question of the appropriateness and usefulness of comparisions between 'Christian' and 'Islamic' or 'Western' and 'Eastern' reformations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9780739105542
• ISBN-10: 073910554X
• Artikelnr.: 29027022

Autorenporträt

Michaelle Browers is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wake Forest University. Charles Kurzman is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction: Comparing Reformations
Chapter 2 Who Speaks for Islam? Inside the Islamic Reformation
Chapter 3 Islam and PoliticalSinn: The Hermeneutics of Contemporary Islamic
Reformists
Chapter 3 Changes in Modern Islamic Legal Theory: Reform or Reformation
Chapter 5 Critics Within: Islamic Scholars' Protests against the Islamic
State in Iran
Chapter 5 The Politics of Historical Revisionism: New Re-readings of the
Early Islamic Period
Chapter 6 In Search of the Counter-Reformation: Anti-Sufi Stereotypes and
the Budshishiyya's Response
Chapter 7 Primitivism as a Radical Response to Religious Crisis: The
Anabaptists of Münster in the 1530s and the Taliban of Afghanistan in the
1990s
Chapter 8 Islamic Fundamentalism and the Trauma of Modernization:
Reflections on Religion and Radical Politics
Chapter 10 Conclusion: An Islamic Reformation? Some Afterthoughts

Rezensionen

An outstanding and timely, original and highly focused analysis of the theories and prospects of an Islamic Reformation - a refreshing, intimate, well-informed and insightful account of the most significant current debates among Muslims everywhere. -- Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, School of Law, Emory University