Introduction: The Culture of Modernity in Islam and the Middle East

Derek Hopwood

Nature, Hyperbole, and the Colonial State: Some Muslim Appropriations of European Modernity in Late Nineteenth-Century Urdu Literature

Javed Majeed

The Limits of the Sacred: The Epistemology of `Abd al-Karim Soroush

John Cooper

Islamic Scholar and Religious Leader: Shaikh Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Buti

Andreas Christmann

Islamic History, Islamic Identity and the Reform of Islamic Law: The Thought of Husayn Ahmad Amin

Nadia Abu-Zahra

Mahmud Muhammad Taha's Second Message of Islam and his Modernist Project

Mohamed Mahmoud

Mohamed Talbi's Ideas on Islam and Politics: A Conception of Islam for the Modern World

Ronald L. Nettler

Can Modern Rationality Shape a New Religiosity? Mohamed Abed Jabri and the Paradox of Islam and Modernity

Abdou Filali-Ansari

Islam, Europe, the West: Meanings-at-Stake and the Will-to Power

Mohammed Arkoun

Divine Attributes in the Qur'an: Some Poetic Aspects

Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid

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