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Cosmopolitans and Heretics - New Muslim Intellectuals and the Study of Islam (Paperback, New)
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Cosmopolitans and Heretics - New Muslim Intellectuals and the Study of Islam (Paperback, New)
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Dramatic political events involving Muslims across the world have
put Islam under increased scrutiny. However, the focus of this
attention is generally limited to the political realm and often
even further confined by constrictive views of Islamism narrowed
down to its most extremist exponents. Much less attention is paid
to the parallel development of more liberal alternative Islamic
discourses. The final decades of the twentieth-century has also
seen the emergence of a Muslim intelligentsia exploring new and
creative ways of engaging with the Islamic heritage. Drawing on
advances made in the Western human sciences and understanding Islam
in comprehensive terms as a civilisation rather than restricting it
to religion in a conventional sense their ideas often cause
controversy, even inviting accusations of heresy. Cosmopolitans and
Heretics examines three of these new Muslim intellectuals who
combine a solid grounding in the Islamic tradition with an equally
intimate familiarity with the latest achievements of Western
scholarship in religion. This cosmopolitan attitude challenges
existing stereotypes and makes these thinkers difficult to
categorise. Underscoring the global dimensions of new Muslim
intellectualism, Kersten analyses contributions to contemporary
Islamic thought of the late Nurcholish Madjid, Indonesia's most
prominent public intellectual of recent decades, Hasan Hanafi, one
of the leading philosophers in Egypt, and the influential
French-Algerian historian of Islam Mohammed Arkoun. Emphasising
their importance for the rethinking of the study of Islam as a
field of academic inquiry, this is the first book of its kind and a
welcome addition to the intellectual history of the modern Muslim
world.
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