Modern Islamic Thinking and Activism : Dynamics in the West and in the Middle East /
This book presents a series of scholarly papers in relation to Islamic thinking, activism, and politics in both the West and the Middle East. The reader will apprehend that Islam is not the monolithic religion so often depicted in the media or (earlier) in the academic world. The Islamic world is mo...
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Leuven, Belgium :
Leuven University Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Contemporary Islamic activism and Muslims / Erkan Toğuşlu and Johan Leman
- Modern Islamic thinking. Fethulla Gülen, Tariq Ramadan and Yusuf al-Qaradawi : the pluralisation of Islamic knowledge / Erkan Toğuşlu ; Tariq Ramadan and Abdullahi An-Naʼim's Islamic gender reform in the Brussels Moroccan community / Thierry Limpens ; The contribution of Sufism to the construction of contemporary Europe's Islam / Eric Geoffroy
- Secularism, Islam and public sphere : Turkey and Egypt. Post secularism, post-Islamism and Islam in the public sphere / Ihsan Yılmaz ; The Arab revolutions and Islamic civil society / Emilio Giuseppe Platti ; The Muslim Brotherhood and the democratic experience in Egypt / Roel Meijer
- Contemporary Islamic social activism. Social work, poverty, inequality and social safety nets : voluntary welfare organizations / Jonathan Benthall ; Tradition and modernity in social Islam : the case of Muslim NGOs in Jordan / Egbert Harmsen ; Fighting poverty with Kimse Yok Mu / Thomas Michel
- Conclusion. Translocality and hybridization in current modern Islamic activism / Erkan Toğuşlu and Johan Leman.