Modern Islamic Thought: Politic, Religion and Reform

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 ISLAMIC THOUGHT is 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.