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Cosmopolitans and Heretics: New Muslim Intellectuals and the Study of Islam
Contributor(s): Kersten, Carool (Author)

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 ISBN: 1849041296     ISBN-13: 9781849041294
Publisher: Hurst & Co.
OUR PRICE: $39.43  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Islam - History
- Social Science | Islamic Studies
- History | World - General
Dewey: 909.097
Age Level: 22-UP
Grade Level: 17-UP
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (0.90 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Islamic
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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Publisher Description:
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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