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Reform and Its Perils in Contemporary Islam is an intellectual history and critical analysis of the work of prominent Muslim scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (1943-2010), one of the 20th century's key Muslim reformers.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Abu Zayd's Intellectual Lineage
- Chapter 2: The Missteps of the Nah¿a Intellectuals
- Chapter 3: The Shackles of History
- Chapter 4: Shari¿a and the Status of the Qur¿an
- Chapter 5: Islamic Secularism
- Chapter 6: Women's Rights
- Conclusion
About the author
Nadia Oweidat is Assistant Professor at Kansas State University and was a Middle East Fellow at the Wilson Center for International Scholars for the 2021-2022 academic year. She specializes in the religions, cultures, politics, and history of the Middle East and North Africa.
Summary
Reform and Its Perils in Contemporary Islam is an intellectual history and critical analysis of the work of prominent Muslim scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (1943-2010), one of the 20th century's key Muslim reformers.
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Nadia Oweidat's comprehensive study of Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd is the first book-length publication about this ground-breaking scholar of Islam and Muslim intellectual. Reform and Its Perils in Contemporary Islam contextualizes Abu Zayd's contributions to the critical study of the Qur'an within the wider intellectual setting of the modern and present-day Muslim world and shows how in the face of persecution he became a combative advocate of the freedom of thought.
