RT Book
T1 Cosmopolitans and heretics: new Muslim intellectuals and the study of Islam
A1 Kersten, Carool 1964-
LA English
PP London
PB Hurst
YR 2011
ED 1. publ.
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/669592196
AB Dramatic political events involving Muslims across the world have put Islam under increased scrutiny. However, the focus of this attention is generally limited to the political realm and often even further confined by constrictive views of Islamism narrowed down to its most extremist exponents. Much less attention is paid to the parallel development of more liberal alternative Islamic discourses. The final decades of the twentieth-century has also seen the emergence of a Muslim intelligentsia exploring new and creative ways of engaging with the Islamic heritage. Drawing on advances made in the Western human sciences and understanding Islam in comprehensive terms as a civilisation rather than restricting it to religion in a conventional sense their ideas often cause controversy, even inviting accusations of heresy. Cosmopolitans and Heretics examines three of these new Muslim intellectuals who combine a solid grounding in the Islamic tradition with an equally intimate familiarity with the latest achievements of Western scholarship in religion. This cosmopolitan attitude challenges existing stereotypes and makes these thinkers difficult to categorise. Underscoring the global dimensions of new Muslim intellectualism, Kersten analyses contributions to contemporary Islamic thought of the late Nurcholish Madjid, Indonesia's most prominent public intellectual of recent decades, Hasan Hanafi, one of the leading philosophers in Egypt, and the influential French-Algerian historian of Islam Mohammed Arkoun. Emphasising their importance for the rethinking of the study of Islam as a field of academic inquiry, this is the first book of its kind and a welcome addition to the intellectual history of the modern Muslim world. -- Publisher description
NO Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-306) and index
CN BP42
SN 1-84904-129-6
SN 978-1-84904-129-4
K1 Islam : Study and teaching : History : 21st century
K1 Islam : Historiography
K1 Islam : Study and teaching : History : 20th century
K1 Arkoun, Mohammed
K1 Majid, Nurcholish
K1 Intellektueller
K1 Islam
K1 Modernisierung
K1 Geschichte 1980-2010
K1 Islam : 20th century
K1 Islam : 21st century