Negotiating the shoals of modernity -- Engaging the Sharia : rereading the Quʼran and hadith -- Islam and politics -- Islam, gender and feminist hermeneutics -- War and peacemaking in the Islamic tradition -- American Muslims and the expansion of the umma -- Religious dialogue and interfaith relations -- Epilogue : looking to the future
Summary
This book deals with certain ""hot-button"" contemporary issues in Islam that are often the focus of public scrutiny, including the Sharia, jihad, the caliphate, women's status, and interfaith relations. Notably, it places the discussion of these topics within a longer historical framework in order to reveal their multiple interpretations and contested applications over time. Most public and some academic discourses however present the Islamic tradition as unchanging and therefore unable to respond to the modern world. Such an ahistorical approach fosters the belief that Muslim and Western soc
