New thinking in Islam the jihad for democracy, freedom and women's rights
In Rethinking Islam, Katajun Amirpur argues that the West's impression of Islam as a backward-looking faith, resistant to post-Enlightenment thinking, is misleading and-due to its effects on political discourse-damaging. Introducing readers to key thinkers and activists-such as Abu Zaid, a free...
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Gingko Library
2015
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Table of Contents:
- On the way to the modern
- Islamic reformers today
- Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid : who's the heretic here?
- Fazlur Rahman : from the Qurʹan to life, and back again to the Qurʹan
- Amina Wadud : in the midst of the gender jihad
- Asma Barlas : as though only men were objective
- ʹAbdolkarim Soroush : more than ideology and state
- Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari : the Prophet reads the world
- The future of Islam