Cosmopolitans and heretics : new Muslim intellectuals and the study of Islam / Carool Kersten

Author:: Kersten, Carool
Published:: New York : Columbia University Press, [2011]
Copyright Date:: ©2011
Physical Description:: xvi, 324 pages ; 23 cm

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Contents:

Introduction : writing an intellectual history of the contemporary Muslim world -- Refashioning the study of Islam and the Muslim world -- From Wunderkind to enfant terrible : the early career of Nurcholish Madjid -- Engaging with Islamic tradition -- Reactualising Islam : universal doctrine and cultural cosmopolitanism -- The transformation of a Muslim modernist : the early years of Hasan Hanafi -- The search for method -- Reconstructing Islam : heritage and renewal -- A cultural and intellectual border crosser : the early years of Mohammed Arkoun -- Applied Islamology -- Rethinking Islam : from Islamic humanism to emerging reason -- New Muslim intellectuals : cosmopolitan and heretical.

Subject(s):

Islam—Study and teaching—History—20th century
Islam—Study and teaching—History—21st century
Islam—Historiography

ISBN:

9780231702393 (alk. paper)
0231702396 (alk. paper)
9780231800044 (e-book)
0231800045 (e-book)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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