An Islamic reformation?
By: edited by Michaelle Browers and Charles Kurzman.
Contributors: Browers, Michaelle, 1968-; Kurzman, Charles.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Islam -- 21st century.; Islamic renewal.; Islamic modernism.
Description: "Over the last two decades we have seen a vast number of books published in the West that treat Islamic fundamentalism as a rising threat to the values of secularism and democracy. In the last decade scholars began proclaiming as existent or emerging "clash" between East and West, Islam and Christianity, or in the case of Benjamin R. Barber, "Jihad and McWorld." More recently, some scholars have offered another interpretation. Focusing on the work on contemporary Muslim intellectuals, these scholars have begun to argue that what we are witnessing, in Islamic contexts, is tantamount to a reformation. An Islamic Reformation? attempts to evaluate this claim through the work of emerging and top scholars in the fields of political science, philosophy, anthropology, religion, history, and Middle Eastern studies. The overall goal of this volume is to question the impact of various reformist trends throughout the Middle East."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-200) and index.
Table of contents: title: Who speaks for Islam?  Inside the Islamic reformation / Dale F. Eickelman; title: Changes in modern Islamic legal theory : reform or reformation? / Felicitas Opwis; title: Islam and political Sinn : the Hermeneutics of contemporary Islamic reformists / Michaelle Browers; title: Critics within : Islamic scholars' protests against the Islamic state in Iran / Charles Kurzman; title: The politics of historical revisionism : new re-readings of the early Islamic period / Salwa Ismail; title: In search of a counter-reformation : anti-Sufi stereotypes and the Budshishiyya's response / Mark Sedgwick; title: Primitivism as a radical response to religious crisis : the Anabaptists of Münster in the 1530s and the Taliban of Afghanistan in the 1990s / Ernest Tucker; title: Islamic fundamentalism and the trauma of modernization : reflections on religion and radical politics / Nader A. Hashemi