Islam and modernity: Muslim intellectuals respond

Abstract

Introduction: the culture of modernity in Islam and the Middle East, Derek Hopwood nature, hyperbole, and the colonial state - some Muslim appropriations of European modernity in late 19th century Urdu literature, Javed Majeed the limits of the sacred - the epistemology of 'Abd al-Karim Soroush, John Cooper Islamic scholar and religious leader - Shaik Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti, Andreas Christmann Islamic history, Islamic identity and the reform of Islamic law - the thought of Husayn Ahmad Amin, Nadia Abu-Zahra Malmud Muhammad Taha's second message of Islam and his modernist project, Mohamed Mahmoud Mohamed Talbi s ideas on Islam and politics - a conception of Islam for the modern world, Ronals L. Nettler can modern rationality shape a new religiosity? Mohamed Abed Jabri and the paradox of Islam and modernity, Abdou Filali-Ansari Islam, Europe, the west - meanings-at-stake and the will-to power, Mohammed Arkoun divine attributes in the Qur'an - some poetic aspects, Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid.