Against the Grain: Islam in an Inhospitable World

Carool Kersten

Against the Grain: Islam in an Inhospitable World

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Abstract

This article examines some ideas developed by progressive Muslim intellectuals in the late twentieth century. Challenging traditionalist and fundamentalist interpretations of Islam as well as the secularist discourse of Western modernity, these alternative Islamic discourses have often been met with a hostile response or reception in the Muslim World, and have been ignored in the West in the wake of the influential 'Clash of Civilizations' theory

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Historični Seminar
Publisher	Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences
Pages	151-168
Number of pages	18
Volume	8
Publication status	Published - 2010

Keywords

contemporary Islam, modern Islamic thought

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