Pathways to contemporary Islam : new trends in critical engagement / edited by Mohamed Nawab Mohamed Osman

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Constructing pathways to contemporary Islam / Mohamad Nawab -- Section 1. Historical Trends in Contemporary Perspective -- 1. Pathways to modern Islam / Ali Allawi -- 2. A theoretical pathway to contemporary Islam / Iulia Lumina -- Section 2. Contesting the Islamic Intellectual Tradition -- 3. A new approach to Islamic intellectual tradition / Ali Unsal -- 4. The best and most trying of times : Islamic education and the challenge of modernity / Robert W. Hefner -- 5. The function of myths in the justification of Muslim extremism / Syed Farid Alatas -- Section 3. Beyond the Arab Revolutions : Political Islam Revised -- 6. Building trust in the democratic process : the role of Islamists in Tunisia's post-Arab Spring transitional politics / Saleena Saleem -- 7. The failure of political Islam revisited / Olivier Roy -- 8. Regaining the Islamic centre? : a Malaysian chronicle of moderation and its discontents / Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid -- Section 4. Contemporary Spaces of Critical Engagement -- 9. Enhancing dialogue between religious traditions : an Islamic perspective / Osman Bakar -- 10. The ethical in Shari'a practices : deliberations in search of an effective paradigm / Ebrahim Moosa -- 11. The new horizons of piety : religiosity and moral agency in the modern world / Sahar Amer.

Pathways to Contemporary Islam' highlights that the current tensions in Islam and the Muslim world are the result of historical dynamics as opposed to an alleged incompatibility between religious tradition and modernity. The emphasis on pathways indicates that critical engagement and contestation have always been intrinsic to the history of Islam. The aim of the book is to elaborate the contemporary pathways and analyse the trends that contest the Islamic intellectual tradition, the relationship between religion and politics, and the individual and collective practice of religion. The collection of essays analyses the current efforts of critical re-engagement with the Islamic intellectual tradition and underlines the historical diversity of Islamic orthodoxies that led to the establishment of various pathways in the practice and role of religion in Muslim societies.

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