Jeffrey T. Kenney - Islam in the Modern World

Islam in the Modern World

This comprehensive introduction explores the landscape of contemporary Islam. Written by a distinguished team of scholars, it:

• provides broad overviews of the developments, events, people and movements that have defined Islam in the three majority-Muslim regions;
• traces the connections between traditional Islamic institutions and concerns, and their modern manifestations and transformations. How are medieval ideas, policies and practices refashioned to address modern circumstances?
• investigates new themes and trends that are shaping the modern Muslim experience such as gender, fundamentalism, the media and secularization;
• offers case studies of Muslims and Islam in dynamic interaction with different societies.

Islam in the Modern World includes illustrations, summaries, discussion points and suggestions for further reading that will aid understanding and revision. Additional resources are provided via the companion website: www.routledge.com/cw/kenney.

Jeffrey T. Kenney is Professor of Religious Studies and University Professor at DePauw University, USA.

Ebrahim Moosa is Professor of Religion and Islamic Studies in the Department of Religion at Duke University, USA.

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First published in 2014
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Islam in the modern world / edited by Jeffrey T. Kenney and Ebrahim Moosa.
p. cm. -- (Religions in the modern world)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Islam--21st century. 2. Islam--20th century. I. Kenney,
Jeffrey T. (Jeffrey Thomas), 1954- II. Moosa, Ebrahim.
BP161.3.I739 2013
297--dc23
2013002611

ISBN: 978-0-415-78085-8 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-415-78086-5 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-73634-0 (ebk)

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Muhamad Ali, PhD is an Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside, USA. He teaches Islam in Southeast Asia, topics in modern Islam, and approaches to Islam in religious studies. He is a graduate of the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Edinburgh University, UK, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA. He has published two books: Multicultural-Pluralist Theology (2003) and Bridging Islam and the West: An Indonesian View (2009), along with many articles, including Islamic Liberalism in Southeast Asia (2012). His current project is a history of religious pluralism in Indonesia.

Jonathan Brown is a Professor of Islamic Studies in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, USA. His book publications include The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon (2007), Hadith: Muhammads Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World (2009) and Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction (2011). He has published articles in the fields of hadith, Islamic law, Sufism, Arabic lexical theory and pre-Islamic poetry and is the editor in chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islamic Law.

Gary R. Bunt is Reader in Islamic Studies in the Department of Theology, Religious Studies and Islamic Studies at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK. He directs the universitys MA Islamic Studies (by distance learning). Dr Bunts primary research focus is on Islam in cyberspace, and his books include iMuslims: Rewiring the House of Islam (2009), Islam in the Digital Age (2003) and Virtually Islamic (2000). A related research website and blog can be found at www.virtuallyislamic.com.

Anthony R. Byrd is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University, USA. In addition to work on contemporary Islamic theology and political liberalism, his research focuses on philosophy and theology in the classical tradition surrounding issues of reason and evil, moral psychology, and models of the self in Islamic thought.

Carl W. Ernst is William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. He is a specialist in Islamic studies, with a focus on West and South Asia. His published research, based on the study of Arabic, Persian, and Urdu, has been mainly devoted to general and critical issues of Islamic studies, pre-modern and contemporary Sufism, and Indo-Muslim culture. His most recent book is How to Read the Quran: A New Guide, with Select Translations (2011).

Marcia Hermansen is Director of the Islamic World Studies programme at Loyola University Chicago, USA, where she teaches courses in Islamic studies and religious studies in the Theology Department. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in Arabic and Islamic Studies. Her books include Muslima Theology: The Voices of Muslim Women Theologians (forthcoming),