Kersten, Carool

Cosmopolitans and heretics : new Muslim intellectuals and the study of Islam / Carool Kersten - London : Hurst & Co., 2011 - xvi, 324 p. ; 21 cm.

Introduction: writing an intellectual history of the contemporary Muslim world -- Refashioning the study of Islam and the Muslim world -- From Wunderkind to enfant terrible: the early career of Nurcholish Madjid -- Engaging with Islamic tradition -- Reactualising Islam: universal doctrine and cultural cosmopolitanism -- The transformation of a Muslim modernist: the early years of Hasan Hanafi -- The search for method -- Reconstructing Islam: heritage and renewal -- A cultural and intellectual border crosser: the early yaers of Mohammed Arkoun -- Applied Islamology -- Rethinking Islam: from Islamic humanism to emerging reason -- New Muslim intellectuals: cosmopolitan and heretical.

9781849041294 RM117.47


Islam--Study and teaching--History--20th century.
Islam--Study and teaching--History--21st century.
Islam--Historiography.