ABSTRACT

Drawing on more than thirty years intensive engagement with Islam and the Muslim world, including more than ten years as a tertiary educator, this book surveys strands of thought and trends in the development of ideas, themes and issues that have shaped the intellectual outlook of Muslims worldwide since the final decades of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries. It offsets the preoccupation of both media and scholarship with politics in the Muslim world and tensions with the West with investigations of Muslim intellectual concerns with Islamic heritage, both in the form of traditional Islamic learning and the use of reason; politics; law and ethics; and current issues revolving around human rights, gender equality, religious diversity and tolerance, globalization, ecology, and bioethics.