Modern Islamic authority and social change. Volume 2, Evolving debates in the West / edited by Masooda Bano.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bano, Masooda, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authority--Religious aspects--Islam.

Authority.

Taqlīd.

Islam and culture--Western countries.

Islam and culture.

Islam and civil society--Western countries.

Islam and civil society.

Muslim scholars--Western countries.

Muslim scholars.

Islam--21st century.

Islam.

Islam--Doctrines.

Islamic sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 224 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Maps the new Islamic authority platforms emerging in the West and their relationship with older centres of learning in a three-fold typology: Neo-Traditionalists; Neo-Legalists, and Neo-Conservatives.

Contents:

Introduction / Masooda Bano

Part I. Neo-traditionalists: 1. Zaytuna College and the construction of an American Muslim identity / Nathan Spannaus and Christopher Pooya Razavian; 2. The neo-traditionalism of Tim Winter / Christopher Pooya Razavian

Part II. Neo-legalists: From "Islamization of knowledge" to "American Islam": the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) / Nathan Spannaus; 4. Transformative Islamic reform: Tariq Ramadan and the Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE) / Nathan Spannaus

Part III. Neo-conservatives: 5. Yasir Qadhi and the development of reasonable Salafism / Christopher Pooya Razavian; 6. New Deobandi institutions in the West / Christopher Pooya Razavian and Nathan Spannaus.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 May 2021).

ISBN:

1-4744-3329-4

1-4744-3328-6

1-78684-835-X

OCLC:

1306541775