Modernist and Fundamentalist Debates in Islam: A Reader

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction Contemporary Debates in Islam: Modernism versus Fundamentalism....Pages 1-21
Religion versus Science....Pages 23-28
Islamic Revealed Law versus Islamic Common Law....Pages 29-34
The Rationalistic and Philosophical Spirit of Islam....Pages 35-40
The Sociological Laws of the Quran....Pages 41-43
The Necessity of Religious Reform....Pages 45-51
Methodology of Historical Writing....Pages 53-69
War and Peace: Popular Jihad....Pages 71-94
The Problem of Caliphate....Pages 95-100
Authority and the Problem of Succession....Pages 101-108
Intellectual Pluralism and Freedom of Opinion....Pages 109-121
Social Liberalism and Laissez-Faire Capitalism....Pages 123-134
Islam and Civilization....Pages 135-143
Polygamy....Pages 145-157
The Rights of Women....Pages 159-161
The Liberation of Women....Pages 163-181
The Way of Life....Pages 183-185
The Way To Eat a Meal....Pages 187-188
Civil Rights....Pages 189-196
Islam as the Foundation of Knowledge....Pages 197-206
Fallacy of Rationalism....Pages 207-221
War, Peace, and Islamic Jihad....Pages 223-245
The Pillars of an Islamic State....Pages 247-250
The Necessity of Islamic Government....Pages 251-262
The Political Theory of Islam....Pages 263-271
All-Encompassing Program of an Islamic State....Pages 273-300
Boycotting the 1997 Election in Jordan....Pages 301-307
Islamic Action Front Party....Pages 309-313
Critical Attitude toward the West and the Idea of Western Decadence....Pages 315-323
Self-Destructiveness of Western Civilization....Pages 325-331
Granting Capitulatory Rights to the U.S.....Pages 333-339
Islam and Its Adversaries....Pages 341-342
Westoxication....Pages 343-357
A Moralizing Fundamentalism....Pages 359-360
On the Islamic Hijab....Pages 361-372
Back Matter....Pages 373-382