| Description |
xii, 228 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: the culture of modernity in Islam and the Middle East / Derek Hopwood -- Nature, hyperbole, and the colonial state: some Muslim appropriations of European modernity in late nineteenth-century Urdu literature / Javed Majeed -- The limits of the sacred: the epistemology of ̀Abd al-Karim Soroush / John Cooper -- Islamic scholar and religious leader: Shaikh Muhammad Sàid Ramadan al-Buti / Andreas Christmann -- Islamic history, Islamic identity and the reform of Islamic law: the thought of Husayn Ahmad Amin / Nadia Abu-Zahra -- Mahmud Muhammad Taha's second message of Islam and his modernist project / Mohamed Mahmoud -- Mohamed Talbi's ideas on Islam and politics: a conception of Islam for the modern world / Ronald L. Nettler -- Can modern rationality shape a new religiosity? Mohamed Abed Jabri and the paradox of Islam and modernity / Abdou Filali-Ansari -- Islam, Europe, the West: meanings-at-stake and the will-to-power / Mohammed Arkoun -- Divine attributes in the Qur'an: some poetic aspects / Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid |
| Notes |
Originally published: 1998 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography |
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Includes index |
| Subject |
Islam and politics.
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Islam and philosophy.
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Islam and secularism.
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Islam and science.
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| Author |
Cooper, John, 1947 August 24-
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Nettler, Ronald L.
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Mahmoud, Muhammad
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| LC no. |
00701314 |
| ISBN |
1860645313 paperback |
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186064175X |
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