Modern Political and Religious Thought in Islam

The history of modern Islamic thought is, in many respects, a history of encounters: between tradition and modernity, revelation and reason, religion and politics, law and social change, and inherited intellectual legacies and the demands of a changing world. It is within these continuing encounters that the questions addressed in this volume acquire their significance. MODERN POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS THOUGHTS IN ISLAM brings together ten essays that, although written at different moments and originally published for different academic contexts, are united by a sustained concern with the ways in which Muslim thinkers and societies have responded to the intellectual, political, legal, and religious challenges of the modern period.