Format:
Online-Ressource (345 p)
ISBN:
9780765622389
Content:
In recent years, Islamic fundamentalist, revolutionary, and jihadist movements have overshadowed more moderate and reformist voices and trends within Islam. This compelling volume introduces the current generation of reformist thinkers and activists, the intellectual traditions they carry on, and the reasons for the failure of reformist movements to sustain broad support in the Islamic world today. Richly detailed regionally focused chapters cover Iran, the Arab East, the Maghreb, South Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, Europe, and North America. The editor's introductory chapter traces the r
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Detailed Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Reform and Renewal in Islamic Thought: Origins and Evolution; Reform Movements as Responses to External Threats and; Encounter with Modernity; Modernity and Imperialism; Non-European Responses to Modernity; Muslim Responses to Modernity: A Historical Perspective; Afghani, Abduh, and the New Islamic Reformism; Ascendance of the Modernizers: An Ephemeral Victory?; The Return of Islam: A Reaction to Modernization or Its Result?
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Contemporary Muslim Reformist Movements: Genesis and IdeasSuccess and Disillusionment: The Case of Iran; Failure and Its Consequences: Turkey and the Arab World; The Rise of Extremism and the Changing International System; Islamic Reformist Thinking: Early Debates and Themes; Reason versus Tradition; Literalism versus Contextualism; Current Islamic Reformist Thinking: Diverse Influences and Common Traits; Structure and Methodology of This Book; A Note on Spelling and Transliteration; 1. Islamic Reformist Discourse in Iran Proponents and Prospects
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Tradition and Modernity: The Still Relevant ParadigmIranian Responses to Modernity: Historical Background; The Pahlavi Era: Modernization Without Modernity; Islamic Forces Under the Pahlavis; Islamic Reformist Thinking Before the Revolution: Revivers and Intellectuals; Revivers of Islam; Ayatullah Murtaza Mutahari; Ayatullah Muhammad Husseini Beheshti; Ayatullah Mahmud Taleqani: Reviver and Intellectual; Religious Intellectuals; Mehdi Bazargan and the Scientific Reading of Islam; Ali Shariati: The Ideologue of the Islamic Revolution?; Shariati's Vision of Islam; Shariati and Marxism
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Islam, Government, and RevolutionIslamic Revolution: Impact on Islamic Reformist Thinking; Typology of Reformist Thinkers; Reformist Clerics; Hujat al-Islam Muhammad Khatami; Ayatullah Hussein Ali Muntazeri; Ayatullah Yussef Saanei; Ayatullah Muhammad Moussavi Bojnourdi; Hujat al-Islam Muhsen Kadivar; Sheikh Abdullah Nouri; Ex-Clerics; Muhammad Mujtahed Shabestari; Preconceptions of Fuqaha and the Limits of Fiqh; Governance, Democracy, and Human Rights; Muhsen Saidzadeh; Yussefi Eshkevari; Ahmad Qabel; Lay Religious Reformists; Abdolkarim Soroush; Mustafa Malekian; Ali Reza Alavitabar
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Emmad Eddin BaqiConclusions; 2. Reformist and Moderate Voices of Islam in the Arab East; The Range and Characteristics of Reformist and Moderate Discourses; Intermediary Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood; New Reformist Projects; The Syrian Reform Project; The Egyptian Reform Project; Other Reform Projects; Enlightened Islam; Islamic Left; Democracy and Muslim Moderates; Muslim Reformist Activists; Hisham Ga'far; Mohammad Mus'ad; Ahmad Abdullah; Magdi Sa'id; 'Amr Abu Khalil; Ahmad Muhammad and Muhammad abd al-Gawwad; Peaceful Islam: The "Repentants" (al-Ta'ibun)
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Gamal Sultan and al-Manar al-Jadid
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781317461241
Additional Edition:
Print version Reformist Voices of Islam: Mediating Islam and Modernity
Language:
English
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