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Modernist and Fundamentalist Debates in Islam: A Reader

Name: Modernist and Fundamentalist Debates in Islam: A Reader
Author: Mansoor Moaddel
ISBN: 9781403960924

by Mansoor Moaddel (Editor), Kamran Talattof, Mansoor Moaddel

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Overview

Previously published in hardcover as "Contemporary Debates in Islam" With resurgent interest in the Muslim world and in particular political Islam, this collection of original essays by major Muslim thinkers from the Middle East and South Asia demonstrates the ongoing and contentious debate between modernizers seeking to adapt Western ways and fundamentalists who rejected them. From Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and Sayyid Ahmad Khan in the 19th century to Sayyid Qutb and Ayatollah Khomeini in the 20th, the essays provide an opportunity to examine a diversity of Muslim thinkers' thoughts on important topics like jurisprudence, politics, relations with the West, and women, in their own words.

Synopsis

This collection demonstrates the ongoing and contentious debate between modernizers seeking to adapt Western ways and fundamentalists who rejected them. It examines a diversity of Muslim thinkers' thoughts on important topics like jurisprudence, politics, relations with the West, and women.

About the Author, Mansoor Moaddel

Mansoor Moaddel is a professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology at Eastern Michigan University. Kamran Talattof is Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona.

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Provides an excellent source of the major issues that have engaged Muslim intellectuals for over a century as they attempted to grapple with the challenges of Western hegemony and modernity.

- Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Georgetown University