Dedication

pp 5-6

Contents

pp 7-10

Acknowledgements

pp 11-12

Introduction: Constructing Pathways to Contemporary Islam

pp 13-24

Section 1 - Historical Trends in Contemporary Perspective

pp 25-26

1 - Pathways to Modern Islam

pp 27-48

2 - A Theoretical Pathway to Contemporary Islam

pp 49-74

Section 2 - Contesting the Islamic Intellectual Tradition

pp 75-76

3 - A New Approach to Islamic Intellectual Tradition

pp 77-98

4 - The Best and Most Trying of Times: Islamic Education and the Challenge of Modernity

pp 99-124

5 - The Function of Myths in the Justification of Muslim Extremism

pp 125-142

Section 3 - Beyond the Arab Revolutions: Political Islam Revised

pp 143-144

6 - Building Trust in the Democratic Process: The Role of Islamists in Tunisia’s Post-Arab Spring Transitional Politics

pp 145-166

7 - The Failure of Political Islam Revisited

pp 167-180

8 - Regaining the Islamic Centre?: A Malaysian Chronicle of Moderation and Its Discontents

pp 181-212

Section 4 - Contemporary Spaces of Critical Engagement

pp 213-214

9 - Enhancing Dialogue Between Religious Traditions: An Islamic Perspective

pp 215-234

10 - The Ethical in Shari’a Practices: Deliberations in Search of an Effective Paradigm

pp 235-264

11 - The New Horizons of Piety: Religiosity and Moral Agency in the Modern World

pp 265-286

Notes on the Contributors

pp 287-288

Index

pp 289-291