1st Edition
Reformation of Islamic Thought A Critical Historical Analysis
By Nasr Abu Zayd
Copyright 2006
112 Pages
by
Routledge
Ever since the dramatic events of September 11, 2001 the fundamentalist and exclusivist trend prevails in most presentations of Islamic thinking. Indeed, these events have given extremists and fundamentalists a much more prominent position than they might ever have dreamt of.In Reformation of Islamic Thought , the prominent Egyptian scholar Nasr Abû Zayd examines the positive, liberal, and... Read more
Preface, Preface by the Author, 1 Introduction 2 The Pre-Colonial Period 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Cultural Diversity 2.3 The Paradigm of Sharia 2.4 Revivalism 2.5 Conclusion 3 The Nineteenth Century 3.1 Introduction 3.2 The Challenge of Modernity 3.3 Rethinking Consensus: The Emergence of New Ulama 3.4 Al-Afghani: The Pioneer of Reformation, Islah 3.5 Rethinking Sunna, Hadith Criticism: The Emergence of a New Exegesis of the Quran 3.6 Rethinking the Meaning of the Quran 3.6.1 Islam and Science 3.6.2 Islam and Rationalism 3.7 Conclusion 4 The Twentieth Century 4.1 Introduction 4.2 The Emergence of Political Islam 4.2.1 Egypt 4.2.2 Iran and Iraq 4.2.3 Indonesia 4.3 From Reformation (Islah) to Traditionalism (Salafiyya) 4.4 The issue of the Islamic State 4.5 Politicization of the Quran 4.6 The Intellectual Debate: The Quran as a Literary Text 4.7 Case 1: Cultural Islam in Indonesia: Democracy, Freethinking and Human Rights 4.8 Case 2: The Islamic State in Iran 4.9 Conclusion 5 Selected Thinkers on Islam, Sharia, Democracy and Human Rights 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Muhammed Arkoun: Rethinking Islam 5.3 Abdullah An-Naim: Sharia and Human Rights 5.4 Riffat Hassan and Others: Feminist Hermeneutics 5.5 Tariq Ramadan: European Islam 5.6 Nasr Abu Zayd: Rethinking Sharia, Democracy, Human Rights, and the Position of Women, Epilogue Literature, Glossary
Biography
Nasr Abu Zayd holds the Ibn Rushd Chair at the University of Humanistics, Utrecht, The Netherlands. He is also Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Leiden. He is former Professor of Arabic literature at Cairo University. For his persistent battle for independent scientific research of the Quran, Nasr Abu Zayd has received the 2005 Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought.
