An Islamic reformation? / edited by Michaelle Browers and Charles Kurzman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Browers, Michaelle, 1968-

Kurzman, Charles.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--21st century.

Islam.

Islamic renewal.

Islamic modernism.

Physical Description:

ix, 209 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2004]

Contents:

Introduction: Comparing Reformations / Charles Kurzman, Michaelle Browers 1

1 Who Speaks for Islam? Inside the Islamic Reformation / Dale F. Eickelman 18

2 Changes in Modern Islamic Legal Theory: Reform or Reformation? / Felicitas Opwis 28

3 Islam and Political Sinn: The Hermeneutics of Contemporary Islamic Reformists / Michaelle Browers 54

4 Critics Within: Islamic Scholars' Protests against the Islamic State in Iran / Charles Kurzman 79

5 The Politics of Historical Revisionism: New Re-Readings of the Early Islamic Period / Salwa Ismail 101

6 In Search of a Counter-Reformation: Anti-Sufi Stereotypes and the Budshishiyya's Response / Mark Sedgwick 125

7 Primitivism as a Radical Response to Religious Crisis: The Anabaptists of Munster in the 1530s and the Taliban of Afghanistan in the 1990s / Ernest Tucker 147

8 Islamic Fundamentalism and the Trauma of Modernization: Reflections on Religion and Radical Politics / Nader A. Hashemi 159

Conclusion: An Islamic Reformation? Some Afterthoughts / Fred Dallmayr 178.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-200) and index.

ISBN:

073910554X

OCLC:

53045149