Islam and Modernity: Key Issues and Debates

Contents

Preface vi

Part 1. Conceptualising Modernity

1. Tradition and Modernity within Islamic Civilisation and
   the West 3
   Armando Salvatore


2. Western Scholars of Islam on the Issue of Modernity 36
   Muhammad Khalid Masud and Armando Salvatore

Part 2. Negotiating Modernity

3. Political Modernity 57
   Sami Zubaida


4. Islam, Modernity and the Politics of Gender 91
   Deniz Kandiyoti


5. Sufi sm, ‘Popular’ Islam and the Encounter with Modernity 125
   Martin van Bruinessen


6. Colonialism and Islamic Law 158
   Ebrahim Moosa

Part 3. Debating Modernity

7. The Reform Project in the Emerging Public Spheres 185
   Armando Salvatore


8. The Ulama and Contestations on Religious Authority 206
   Muhammad Qasim Zaman


9. Islamic Modernism 237
   Muhammad Khalid Masud


10. The Shifting Politics of Identity 261
    Abdulkader Tayob

List of Contributors 285
Index 288