Cosmopolitans and heretics
Subtitle: new Muslim intellectuals and the study of Islam
By: Carool Kersten
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780231702393; 9780231800044
Subjects: Historiography; Study and teaching; Islam; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Writing an intellectual history of the contemporary; title: Muslim world; title: Refashioning the study of Islam and the Muslim world; title: From Wunderkind to enfant terrible; title: Engaging with tradition; title: Reactualising Islam : universal doctrine, cultural cosmopolitanism; title: The transformation of a Muslim modernist; title: The search for method; title: Reconstructing Islam : heritage and renewal; title: A cultural and intellectual border crosser; title: Applied Islamology; title: Rethinking Islam : from Islamic humanism to emerging reason; title: New muslim intellectuals : cosmopolitan and heretical.