Modern Muslim Intellectuals And The Quran

Author : Suha Taji-Farouki
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780197200032
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Muslim Intellectuals and the Qur'an written by Suha Taji-Farouki and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the writings of ten Muslim intellectuals, working in the Muslim world and the West, who employ contemporary critical methods to understand the Qur'an. Their work points to a new trend in Muslim interpretation, characterised by a direct engagement with the Word of God while embracing intellectual modernity in a global context. The volume situates and evaluates their work and responses to it among Muslim and non-Muslim audiences.

Author : John Cooper
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam and Modernity written by John Cooper and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 1998-12-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents the ideas of a number of contemporary modernist and liberal Muslim thinkers, exposing an important intellectual current in Islamic thought. These figures work mainly outside "established" institutional, political and religious frameworks, whilst relying heavily on traditional sources. Responding to the challenges brought by colonialism and modernization, they propose new conceptions and interpretations of Islam consonant with the age. Although their specific concerns and emphases vary, their thought shares certain features; a reconsideration of the relation between religion and politics; an easy incorporation of modern Western ideas; a reinterpretaton of sacred sources which highlights their more universalist elements; and a conception of Islam as moving with historical change whilst remaining rooted in Qur'anic values. Disputing the widespread view of modern Islam as essentially political, the book shows a quite different face of the tradition.

Author : Asghar Ali Engineer
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781932705690
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam in Contemporary World written by Asghar Ali Engineer and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on 2007 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects on and re-evaluates various socially relevant topics of present times by bringing out the transcendental nature of the Qur'an and relating them to the demands of the contemporary world. Written lucidly, this well-researched and informative book will be a delightful read for scholars, students of Islamic Study, social scientists, as well as lay readers.

Author : Fazlur Rahman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226702847
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam and Modernity written by Fazlur Rahman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author counsels, and demonstrates, that for Islam fo be what Muslims claim it to be - comprehensive in scope and efficacious for every age and place - Muslim scholars and educationists must reevaluate their methodology and hermeneutics. --book cover.

Author : Sena Karasipahi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780755608607
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muslims in Modern Turkey written by Sena Karasipahi and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Modern Turkey is the site of a powerful Islamic revival, with a strong intellectual elite dedicated to the overthrow of secular modernism. Why have modern Muslim intellectuals turned against the ideals of Kemalism on which the modern Turkish nation-state is founded? What does this reveal about the future of Turkey? And how are Islamic intellectuals in Turkey affected by developments in the Middle East? "Muslims in Modern Turkey" is the first book to analyse this phenomenon, tracing the evolution of Muslim intellectual thought from the 1980s to the present day. It focuses on six leading Muslim thinkers - Ali Bulac, Rasim Ozdenoren, Ismet Ozel, Ilhan Kutluer, Ersin Nazif Gurdogan and Abdurrahman Dilipak - who belong to a single school and share a novel understanding of Islam. They act as public intellectuals, who aim to reform and enlighten society by educating them and raising their awareness of Islamic values, arguing not for the compatibility of Islam and European values but the fundamental superiority of Islam over secular democracy.Sena Karasipahi places the Turkish experience in its broader international context and shows how Turkish Islamic intellectuals are affected by the earlier Muslim intellectuals and revivalists in the Arab world and in Turkey. This important study makes connections with the Islamic revival process throughout the contemporary Middle East as well as with comparable movements in Turkey's own past, making this a crucial contribution to an understanding of contemporary Islamic political thinking."--Bloomsbury publishing.

Author : Hussein Ahmad Amin
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474437095
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sorrowful Muslim's Guide written by Hussein Ahmad Amin and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines transnational Chinese stardom as a Web-based phenomenon.

Author : Hakan Çoruh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030153495
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Interpretation of the Qur’an written by Hakan Çoruh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the distinguished modern Muslim scholar Bediuzzaman Said Nursi and the methodology of Qur’anic exegesis in his Risale-i Nur Collection, with special reference to the views of the early Muslim modernist intellectuals such as Muhammad ‘Abduh. It seeks to locate Nursi within modern Qur’anic scholarship, exploring the difference between Nursi’s reading of the Qur’an and that of his counterparts, and examines how Nursi relates the Qur’anic text to concerns of the modern period.

Author : John L. Esposito
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195141288
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Makers of Contemporary Islam written by John L. Esposito and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Makers of Contemporary Islam examines the biographies of nine major activist intellectuals whose work provides the core of what the Islamic resurgence became in the 1990's and is an important foundation for what it can become in the 21st century. The profiles of these internationally recognized figures provide a new understanding of the intellectual foundations of contemporary Islamic awareness and Muslim politics. Nine figures are covered: Ismail al-Faruqi, Khurshid Ahmad, Maryam Jameelah, Hasan Hanafi, Anwar Ibrahim, and Abdurrahman Wahid. These intellectual activists represent a distinctive phase in the evolution of Islamic thinking: the ongoing effort to create an effective synthesis of modernity and Islamic tradition. Makers of Contemporary Islam is essential reading for students and scholars of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies as well as general readers interested in the Islamic resurgence and international affairs.

Author : Omid Safi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 178074045X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Progressive Muslims written by Omid Safi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed in response to the events of September 11, 2001, these 14 articles from prominent Muslim thinkers offer a provocative reassessment of Islam's relationship with the modern world. Confronting issues such as racism, justice, sexuality and gender, this book reveals the real challenges faced by Muslims of both sexes in contemporary Western society. A probing, frank, and intellectually refreshing testament to the capacity of Islam for renewal, change, and growth, these articles from fifteen Muslim scholars and activists address the challenging and complex issues that confront Muslims today. Avoiding fundamentalist and apologetic approaches, the book concentrates on the key areas of debate in progressive Islamic thought: "Contemporary Islam," "Gender Justice," and "Pluralism." With further contributions on subjects as diverse and controversial as the alienation of Muslim youth; Islamic law, marriage, and feminism; and the role of democracy in Islam, this volume will prove thought-provoking for all those interested in the challenges of justice and pluralism facing the Muslim world as it confronts the twenty-first century.

Author : Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi'
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791426647
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Origins of Islamic Resurgence in the Modern Arab World written by Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi' and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword Acknowledgments 1 The Context: Modern Arab Intellectual History, Themes, and Questions 2 Turath Resurgent? Arab Islamism and the Problematic of Tradition 3 Hasan al-Banna and the foundation fo the Ikhwan: Intellectual Underpinnings 4 Sayyid Qutb: The Pre-Ikhwan Phase 5 Sayyid Qutb’s Thought between 1952 and 1962: A Prelude to His Qur’anic Exegesis 6 Qur’anic Contents of Sayyid Qutb’s Thought 7 Toward an Islamic Liberation Theology: Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah and the Principles of Shi’i Resurgence 8 Islamic Revivalism: The Contemporary Debate Notes Bibliography Index