Islam's Renewal Reform or Revolt? /

• Main Author: Hopwood, Derek (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: St Antony's Series,
• Subjects: Religion and politics.; World politics.; Middle East-Politics and government.; Politics and Religion.; Political History.; Middle Eastern Politics.

The book considers some of the solutions proposed by Muslim activists and thinkers in their attempts to renew (tajdid) their ways of life and thought in accord with the demands of the age in which they lived. The two ways of reacting are studied - the movements led by men of action and inspiration,...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Revolt
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Libya; first experience of the Arab world and Islam
• 3. How the Middle East came to be studied.-4. Leaders of revival in Islam
• 5. Two historical movements
• 6  Leaders and state formation
• 7 Leaders against colonialism
• Part II Islamic renewal; calls for reform
• 8. A way of approaching Islamic history
• 9. Thinkers, not activists
• 10. What is modernity in Islam
• Part III Revolts renewed
• 11. Features of later twentieth and twenty first century movements
• 12. Renewal again
• 13. The post-modern era; the rage of Islam
• 14. Post-modern reaction
• 15. Palestine; the root cause of Muslim despair?
• 16 Conclusion; a hope for tolerance.