1st Edition

Pathways to Contemporary Islam New Trends in Critical Engagement

Edited By Mohamed Nawab Mohamed Osman Copyright 2020
292 Pages
by Routledge

292 Pages
by Routledge

292 Pages
by Routledge

Pathways to Contemporary Islam: New Trends in Critical Engagement highlights that the current tensions in Islam and the Muslim world are the result of historical dynamics as opposed to an alleged incompatibility between religious tradition and modernity. The emphasis on pathways indicates that critical engagement and contestation have always been intrinsic to the history of Islam. The aim of the... Read more
Foreword, Preface and Acknowledgements, Notes on the Contributors, List of Abbreviations, Introduction Constructing Pathways to Contemporary Islam Mohamad Nawab Section 1 Historical Trends in Contemporary Perspective, Section 2 Contesting the Islamic Intellectual Tradition, Section 3 Beyond the Arab Revolutions: Political Islam Revised, Section 4 Contemporary Spaces of Critical Engagement, Notes on the Contributors, Index

Biography

Mohamed Nawab Mohamed Osman is Assistant Professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He is also an Associate Faculty at the Islamophobia Studies Research and Documentation Project at the University of California-Berkeley. He is the author of Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia and Political Islam: Identity, Ideology and Religio-Political Mobilisation.