Title

Dynamic Islam : Liberal Muslim Perspectives in a Transnational Age

Authors

Jon Armajani, College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's UniversityFollow

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Description

Dynamic Islam analyzes the lives and works of four of the most influential liberal diaspora Muslim intellectuals of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries—Fatima Mernissi, Leila Ahmed, Fazlur Rahman, and Mohammed Arkoun. These prolific scholars are among the first generation of Muslims writing in Western languages who have intentionally directed their works toward audiences in the West, as well as the Muslim world. Jon Armajani examines the way these cutting-edge scholars have interpreted the Quran, Hadith, and Islamic history as they have constructed their visions for Islam in the modern world. Armajani vividly describes their perspectives on women and gender, veiling, Islamic revivalism, Islam and democracy, and Islamic mysticism. The volume also situates their ideas with respect to conservatively minded western Muslims and Islamic revivalists.

ISBN

9780761829676

Publication Date

2004

Publisher

University Press of America

City

New York

Recommended Citation

Armajani, Jon. Dynamic Islam: Liberal Muslim Perspectives in a Transnational Age. New York: University Press of America, 2004.