Kersten, Carool.

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.

9780231702393 (alk. paper) 9781849041294(alk. paper) 9780231800044 (ebook) 0231800045 (ebook)

2011001835


Islam--Study and teaching--History--20th century.
Islam--Study and teaching--History--21st century.
Islam--Historiography.

BP42 / .K43 2011

297.092/2