This book presents an intellectual history of today's Muslim world, surveying contemporary Muslim thinking in its various manifestations, addressing a variety of themes that impact on the lives of present-day Muslims. Focusing on the period from roughly the late 1960s to the first decade of the twenty-first century, the book is global in its approach and offers an overview of different strands of thought and trends in the development of new ideas, distinguishing between traditional, reactionary, and progressive approaches. It presents a variety of themes and issues including: The continuing relevance of the legacy of traditional Islamic learning as well as the use of reason; the centrality of the Qur'an; the spiritual concerns of contemporary Muslims; political thought regarding secularity, statehood, and governance; legal and ethical debates; related current issues like human rights, gender equality, and religious plurality; as well as globalization, ecology and the environment, bioethics, and life sciences. An alternative account of Islam and the Muslim world today, counterbalancing narratives that emphasise politics and confrontations with the West, this book is an essential resource for students and scholars of Islam. Read more...

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Contemporary Thought in the Muslim World; Trends, Themes and Issues; First Edition

Kersten, Carool (author.)

Ashgate Publishing Limited

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Gower Publishing Ltd

Routledge Ltd.

Contemporary thought in the Islamic world, London ; New York, 2019

Contemporary Thought in the Islamic World Ser, Georgetown, 2018

Contemporary thought in the Islamic world, Andover, 2019

Taylor & Francis (Unlimited), New York, NY, 2019

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Cover
1
Half Title 4
Series Page 5
Title Page 6
Copyright Page 7
Table of Contents 8
Acknowledgements 10
Introduction 12
Note 16
1. The problem of taxonomy: categorizing contemporary Muslim intellectuals 17
Traditional and socially conservative 18
Reactionary 23
Progressive Islamic discourses 27
Notes 35
2. Philosophies of knowledge: transmission and reason 38
Heritage thinkers: Arab Averroists, Renewers and Critics 40
From renewal thinking to Islamic post-traditionalism and transformative Islam: progressive Muslim discourses in Indonesia 52
Turkey’s Ankara school 55
New religious intellectuals in Iran 56
Khaled Abou El Fadl’s methodology of ihsan 62
Closing remarks 64
Notes 64
3. Scripture: alternative ways of engaging with the Qur’an 69
Textualist approaches 71
Contextualist approaches 76
Acontrarian reading of the Qur’an 78
Ascientific contemporary reading of the Qur’an 80
Indirect exegesis: how to understand revelation in
post-revolutionary Iran: Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari and
Abdolkarim Soroush 84
Notes 87
4. Spiritual dimensions of contemporary Muslim thought: Sufism today: psychology, literature, and Islamization of knowledge 90
Critiques of modernism: the connections between modern-day Sufism and traditionalism 93
Integrating the intellectual and spiritual: Islamization of knowledge and Sufi psychology 97
Sufism and literature 102
Further manifestations of contemporary Sufism: urban, intellectual and otherwise 107
By way of conclusion: Sufism as part of Turkey’s ‘third way’ 108
Notes 109
5. Islam and politics: thinking about secularity, freedom and democracy 114
Islam: religion and state, or religion and not astate? 115
Secularity, secularization, secularism 117
Theorizing Islam and the state in Indonesia 121
Writing about freedom, democracy and reason in Iran and Turkey 123
The case of democracy in the Arab-Islamic world 127
Euro-Islam: citizenship, loyalty and political participation of Muslims in minority situations 131
Concluding remarks 133
Notes 134
6. Shariʿa: Islamic legal system or ethical guideline? 138
Substantivist critiques and reinterpretations of Islamic law 140
From maqasid al-shariʿa to maqasidi thinking 145
Debating Islamic law in the Islamic Republic of Iran 150
Maqasid al-Shariʿa and minority fiqh 153
Closing remarks 156
Notes 156
7. Dealing with difference and plurality: emancipation, toleration and human rights 160
Muslim feminists on women’s rights 160
Minority fiqh and religious diversity 168
From Islamic exclusivism to religious pluralism 170
Islam and human rights 176
Closing remarks 183
Notes 183
8. Issues of the twenty-first century: globalization, ecology and medical ethics 187
Muslims in aglobalizing world 187
From clash to dialogue, to alliance of civilizations: the securitization of the globalization debate 193
Sleepwalking into acrisis? Islam and ecology 194
Medical ethics and bioethics 198
Notes 201
Bibliography 205
Index 221

This book presents an intellectual history of today's Muslim world, surveying contemporary Muslim thinking in its various manifestations, addressing a variety of themes that impact on the lives of present-day Muslims. Focusing on the period from roughly the late 1960s to the first decade of the twenty-first century, the book is global in its approach and offers an overview of the different strands of thought and trends in the development of new ideas, distinguishing between traditional, reactionary and progressive approaches. It presents a variety of themes and issues including: The continuing relevance of the laegacy of transmitted traditional Isalmic learning as well as the use of reason; the centrality of the Qur'an; the spiritual concerns of contemporary Muslims; political thought regarding secularity, statehood and governance; legal and ethical debates; related current issues like human rights, gender equality and religious plurality; as well as globalization, ecology and the environment, bioethics, and life sciences. An alternative account of Islam and the Muslim world today, counterbalancing narratives that emphasize politics and confrontations with the West, this book is an essential resource for students and scholars of Islam. -- From back cover

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Problem Of Taxonomy: Categorizing Contemporary Muslim Intellectuals -- 2. Philosophies Of Knowledge: Transmission And Reason -- 3. Scripture: Alternative Ways Of Engaging With The Qur'an -- 4. Spiritual Dimensions Of Contemporary Muslim Thought: Sufism Today: Psychology, Literature, And Islamization Of Knowledge -- 5. Islam And Politics: Thinking About Secularity, Freedom, And Democracy -- 6. Shari'a: Islamic Legal System Or Ethical Guideline? -- 7. Dealing With Difference And Plurality: Emancipation, Toleration, And Human Rights -- 8. Issues Of The Twenty-first Century: Globalization, Ecology, And Medical Ethics -- Bibliography -- Index. Carool Kersten. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

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