Cosmopolitans and heretics : new Muslim intellectuals and the study of Islam / Carool Kersten.
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TextPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, c2011Description: xvi, 324 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780231702393 (alk. paper); 9781849041294(alk. paper); 9780231800044 (ebook); 0231800045 (ebook)Subject(s): Islam -- Study and teaching -- History -- 20th century | Islam -- Study and teaching -- History -- 21st century | Islam -- HistoriographyDDC classification: 297.092/2 LOC classification: BP42 | .K43 2011| Item type | Current location | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Centre for International Peace & Stability (CIPS) | Centre for International Peace & Stability (CIPS) | NFIC | General Stacks | 297.0922 KER 2011 (Browse shelf) | Available | CIPS0002313 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

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