An Islamic Reformation?

by Browers, Michaelle; Kurzman, Charles; Dallmayr, Fred; Eickelman, Dale F.; Hashemi, Nader A.; Ismail, Salwa; Opwis, Felicitas; Sedgwick, Mark; Tucker, Ernest

• ISBN13: 9780739105542
• ISBN10: 073910554X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-17
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

This book brings together scholars with expertise in modern Islamic thought and practice to evaluate the claim that we are witnessing something tantamount to an Islamic Reformation, by assessing the character and impact of various reformist trends in the Middle East and North Africa. Each chapter also addresses the question of the appropriateness and usefulness of comparisions between Christian and Islamic or Western and Eastern reformations.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Note on Transliteration	ix
Introduction: Comparing Reformations	1	(17)
Charles Kurzman and Michaelle Browers
1 Who Speaks for Islam? Inside the Islamic Reformation	18	(10)
Dale F. Eickelman
2 Changes in Modern Islamic Legal Theory: Reform or Reformation?	28	(26)
Felicitas Opwis
3 Islam and Political sinn: The Hermeneutics of Contemporary Islamic Reformists	54	(25)
Michaelle Browers
4 Critics Within: Islamic Scholars' Protests against the Islamic State in Iran	79	(22)
Charles Kurzman
5 The Politics of Historical Revisionism: New Re-Readings of the Early Islamic Period	101	(24)
Salwa Ismail
6 In Search of a Counter-Reformation: Anti-Sufi Stereotypes and the Budshishiyya's Response	125	(22)
Mark Sedgwick
7 Primitivism as a Radical Response to Religious Crisis: The Anabaptists of Münster in the 1530's and the Taliban of Afghanistan in the 1990's	147	(12)
Ernest Tucker
8 Islamic Fundamentalism and the Trauma of Modernization: Reflections on Religion and Radical Politics	159	(19)
Nader A. Hashemi
Conclusion: An Islamic Reformation? Some Afterthoughts	178	(7)
Fred Dallmayr
Selected Bibliography	185	(16)
Index	201	(7)
About the Contributors	208