Modern Islamic Th inking and Activism Dynamics in the West and in the Middle East

Table of Contents......Page 5
Introduction......Page 7
Chapter 1 Contemporary Islamic Activism and Muslims......Page 9
Part I: Modern Islamic Thinking......Page 31
Chapter 2 Fethullah Gülen, Tariq Ramadan and Yusuf al-Qaradawi: The Pluralisation of Islamic Knowledge......Page 33
Chapter 3 Tariq Ramadan and Abdullahi An-Na’im’s Islamic Gender Reform in the Brussels Moroccan Community......Page 51
Chapter 4 The Contribution of Sufism to the Construction of Contemporary Europe’s Islam......Page 77
Part II: Secularism, Islam and Public Sphere: Turkey and Egypt......Page 89
Chapter 5 Post-Secularism, Post-Islamism and Islam in the Public Sphere......Page 91
Chapter 6 The Arab Revolutions and Islamic Civil Society......Page 101
Chapter 7 The Muslim Brotherhood and the Democratic Experience in Egypt......Page 127
Part III: Contemporary Islamic Social Activism......Page 141
Chapter 8 Social Work, Poverty, Inequality and Social Safety Nets: Voluntary Welfare Organizations......Page 143
Chapter 9 Tradition and Modernity in Social Islam: The Case of Muslim NGOs in Jordan......Page 161
Chapter 10 Fighting Poverty with Kimse Yok Mu......Page 183
Conclusion......Page 195
Chapter 11 Translocality and Hybridization in Current Modern Islamic Activism......Page 197
About the Authors......Page 211