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Modernist and Fundamentalist Debates in Islam A Reader

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ISBN-10: 1403960925

ISBN-13: 9781403960924

Edition: 2000 (Revised)

Authors: Mansoor Moaddel, Kamran Talattof, Kamran Talattof

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Previously published in hardcover as "Contemporary Debates in Islam" nbsp; With resurgent interest in the Muslim world and in particular political Islam, this collection of original essays by major Muslim thinkers from the Middle East and South Asia demonstrates the ongoing and contentious debate between modernizers seeking to adapt Western ways and fundamentalists who rejected them. From Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and Sayyid Ahmad Khan in the 19th century to Sayyid Qutb and Ayatollah Khomeini in the 20th, the essays provide an opportunity to examine a diversity of Muslim thinkers' thoughts on important topics like jurisprudence, politics, relations with the West, and women, in their own…    
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List price: $84.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 2/6/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 382
Size: 6.56" wide x 8.68" long x 0.93" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Introduction
Islamic Modernism
Jurisprudence, Rational Sciences, and Differentiation of Knowledge
Religion Versus Science
Islamic Revealed Law Versus Islamic Common Law
The Rationalistic and Philosophical Spirit of Islam
The Sociological Laws of the Quran
Scientific Reform of Religious Studies
Methodology of Historical Writing
Islam and Politics
War and Peace: Popular Jihad
The Problem of Caliphate
Authority of the Problem of Succession
Intellectual Pluralism and Freedom of Opinion
Islam and Western Civilization
Modernist Economic and Social Project
Islam and Civilization
Islamic Modernism and the Women’s Question
Polygamy
The Rights of Women
The Liberation of Women
Style of Living
The Way of Life
The Way to Eat a Meal
Civil Rights
Islamic Fundamentalism
Jurisprudence, Bases of Law, and Rational Sciences
Islam as the Basis for Knowledge
Fallacy of Rationalism
Islam and Politics
War and Peace: Jihad
The Nature of an Islamic State
The Necessity of Islamic Government
The Political Theory of Islam
The Program of FIS
Boycotting the 1997 Election in Jordan
Islamic Action Front Party—Interview with
Islam and Western Civilization
Critical Attitudes about the West and the Idea of Western Decadence
Suicide of Western Civilization
Granting Capitulatory Rights to the US
Islam and Its Adversaries
Plagued by the West
Women and the Hijab
A Moralizing Fundamentalism
On the Islamic Hijab
Introduction
Islamic Modernism
Jurisprudence, Rational Sciences, and Differentiation of Knowledge
Religion Versus Science
Islamic Revealed Law Versus Islamic Common Law
The Rationalistic and Philosophical Spirit of Islam
The Sociological Laws of the Quran
Scientific Reform of Religious Studies
Methodology of Historical Writing
Islam and Politics
War and Peace: Popular Jihad
The Problem of Caliphate
Authority of the Problem of Succession
Intellectual Pluralism and Freedom of Opinion