new Muslim intellectuals and the study of Islam Kersten, Carool. creator text bibliography nyu New York Columbia University Press c2011 2011 monographic eng

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xvi, 324 p. ; 23 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. Carool Kersten. Includes bibliographical references and index. Islam Study and teaching History 20th century Islam Study and teaching History 21st century Islam Historiography BP42 .K43 2011 297.092/2 9780231702393 (alk. paper) 9781849041294(alk. paper) 9780231800044 (ebook) 0231800045 (ebook) 2011001835 DLC 110114 20170105102916.0 16612444