Name: Rethinking Islam
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Rethinking Islam

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This book, which originated in a conference held to honour Dr. Fathi Osman, starts with a redefinition of what modernity signifies. Rejecting ideological and ethnocentric definitions of modernity, the contributors depart from the understanding that Islam is already an important component of life in the modern world.

The discussion focuses specifically on the moral challenge posed by modernity to Islamic beliefs and thinking, in particular the questions raised by modern thinking and practice in the areas of democracy, human rights and the status of minorities. The contributors approach these questions from different angles, but agree on the need to offer creative but Islamically authentic responses to these challenges. In the process, they challenge some dominant conceptions both within modern and Islamic thinking.

About The Author
Dr Abdelwahab El-Affendi is senior lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster (London), and Coordinator of the Centre’s Democracy and Islam Programme. He was a member of the core team of authors of the UNDP’s 2004 Arab Human Development Report, and a member of the Advisory Board and contributor to the 2005 report, Toward the Rise of Women in the Arab world.

Among his many books are:

Rethinking Islam and Modernity (2001)
For a State of Peace: Conflict and the Future of Democracy in Sudan (2002)
and The Conquest of Muslim Hearts and Minds: Perspectives on U.S. Reform and Public Diplomacy Strategies (2005).
He has contributed to The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1998), Islamic Thought in the Twentieth Century (2003), Islamic Democratic Discourse (2006), and The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought (2006). Published in the early 2008 was the second edition of Who Needs an Islamic State? Dr. el-Affendi’s books have been translated into Arabic, Malay and Turkish.

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