Cosmopolitans and heretics : new Muslim intellectuals and the study of Islam /
Carool Kersten.
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.
- xvi, 324 p. ; 23 cm.
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.