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New thinking in Islam : the jihad for democracy, freedom and women's rights / Katajun Amirpur ; translated from the German by Eric Ormsby.
Van Pelt Library BP171.5 .A5613 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Amirpur, Katajun, 1971- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Islam neu denken. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Democracy.
- Women in Islam.
- Islamic renewal--Islamic countries.
- Islamic renewal.
- Human rights--Islamic countries.
- Human rights.
- Islamic countries.
- Women's rights--Islamic countries.
- Women's rights.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 220 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Gingko Library, 2015.
- Summary:
- Argues that the Western impression of Islam as a backward-looking faith is false, introducing influential reformers committed to democracy and human rights and the Islamic Newthinking movement.
- Contents:
- On the way to the modern
- Islamic reformers today
- Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid : who's the heretic here?
- Fazlur Rahman : from the Qurʹan to life, and back again to the Qurʹan
- Amina Wadud : in the midst of the gender jihad
- Asma Barlas : as though only men were objective
- ʹAbdolkarim Soroush : more than ideology and state
- Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari : the Prophet reads the world
- The future of Islam.
- Notes:
- "In memory of Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid."
- First published in German as Den Islam neu denken in 2013.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-213) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781909942738
- 1909942731
- OCLC:
- 914233084
- Publisher Number:
- 99968757442
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