Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-222) and index.
Contents:
Divine attributes in the Qur'an : some poetic aspects / Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid. Nature, hyperbole, and the colonial state : some Muslim appropriations of European modernity in late nineteenth-century Urdu literature / Javed Majeed -- Islamic scholar and religious leader : Shaikh Muhammad Sa'id 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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