New thinking in Islam : the jihad for democracy, freedom and women's rights

著者

• Amirpur, Katajun
• Ormsby, Eric L. (Eric Linn)

書誌事項

New thinking in Islam : the jihad for democracy, freedom and women's rights

Katajun Amirpur ; translated from the German by Eric Ormsby

Gingko Library, 2015

タイトル別名

Den Islam neu denken

注記

First published in German as Den Islam neu denken in 2013

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-213) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

In Rethinking Islam, Katajun Amirpur argues that the West's impression of Islam as a backward-looking faith, resistant to post-Enlightenment thinking, is misleading and - due to its effects on political discourse - damaging. Introducing readers to key thinkers and activists-such as Abu Zaid, a free - thinking Egyptian Qur'an scholar; Abdolkarim Soroush, an academic and former member of Khomeini's Cultural Revolution Committee; and Amina Wadud, an American feminist who was the first woman to lead the faithful in Friday Prayer - Amirpur reveals a powerful yet lesser-known tradition of inquiry and dissent within Islam, one that is committed to democracy and human rights. By examining these and many other similar figures' ideas, she reveals the many ways they reject fundamentalist assertions and instead call for a diversity of opinion, greater freedom, and equality of the sexes.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB23136738
• ISBN:
  • 9781909942738
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 原本言語コード: ger
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: xvi, 220 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Democracy -- Religious aspects -- Islam
  • LCSH : Women in Islam
  • LCSH : Islamic renewal -- Islamic countries
  • LCSH : Human rights -- Islamic countries
  • LCSH : Women's rights -- Islamic countries