An Islamic Reformation?

This book brings together scholars with expertise in modern Islamic thought and practice to evaluate the claim that we are witnessing something tantamount to an Islamic Reformation, by assessing the character and impact of various reformist trends in the Middle East and North Africa. Each chapter also addresses the question of the appropriateness and usefulness of comparisions between Christian and Islamic or Western and Eastern reformations.

Acknowledgments

vii

Note on Transliteration

ix

Introduction: Comparing Reformations

1

(17)

Charles Kurzman and Michaelle Browers

1 Who Speaks for Islam? Inside the Islamic Reformation

18

(10)

Dale F. Eickelman

2 Changes in Modern Islamic Legal Theory: Reform or Reformation?

28

(26)

Felicitas Opwis

3 Islam and Political sinn: The Hermeneutics of Contemporary Islamic Reformists

54

(25)

Michaelle Browers

4 Critics Within: Islamic Scholars' Protests against the Islamic State in Iran

79

(22)

Charles Kurzman

5 The Politics of Historical Revisionism: New Re-Readings of the Early Islamic Period

101

(24)

Salwa Ismail

6 In Search of a Counter-Reformation: Anti-Sufi Stereotypes and the Budshishiyya's Response

125

(22)

Mark Sedgwick

7 Primitivism as a Radical Response to Religious Crisis: The Anabaptists of Münster in the 1530's and the Taliban of Afghanistan in the 1990's

147

(12)

Ernest Tucker

8 Islamic Fundamentalism and the Trauma of Modernization: Reflections on Religion and Radical Politics

159

(19)

Nader A. Hashemi

Conclusion: An Islamic Reformation? Some Afterthoughts

178

(7)

Fred Dallmayr

Selected Bibliography

185

(16)

Index

201

(7)

About the Contributors

208

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