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Makers of Contemporary Isle This page intentionally left blank MAKERS OF CONTEMPORARY ISLAM John L. Esposito John 0. Voll OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2OOI OXPORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bogota Buenos Aires Calcutta Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi Paris Sao Paulo Shanghai Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto Warsaw and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Copyright © 2001 by John L. Esposito and John 0. Voll Published by Oxford University Press, Inc., 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Esposito, John L. Makers of contemporary Islam / John L. Esposito and John 0. Voll. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-19-514127-x; 0-19-514128-8 (pbk) i. Scholars, Muslim—Islamic countries—Biography. 2. Intellectuals—Islamic countries—Biography. 3. Islam and secularism—Islamic countries. 4. Islam—2Oth century. I. Voll, John Obert, 1936- II. Title. BPjo .E86 2001 297.2'og2'2—dc2i 00-056674 [B] 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 21 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Forjeanette P. Esposito andSarahEVoll This page intentionally left blank ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The research support for this study came from a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. We are grateful to the endow- ment, which is, of course, not responsible for any of the views expressed in this work. The result of our travels, interviews, and research was both Islam and Democracy and Makers of Contemporary Islam. We are indebted to all those connected with the project who were generous with their time and candid in their responses. In addition, we are grateful to the Council on Foreign Affairs in New York for permission to publish an earlier and now expanded version of Valla Vakili's chapter Abdolkarim Soroush and Critical Discourse in Contemporary Iran, whose original title was "Debat- ing Religion and Politics in Iran: The Political Thought of Abdolkarim Soroush" and to The Muslim World for permission to publish a revised ver- sion of our "Khurshid Ahmad: Muslim Activist-Economist." Natana De- Long-Bas, research assistant for parts of this project, did an excellent job. Cynthia A. Read, our editor at Oxford and her colleagues have been espe- cially helpful in expediting publication. Finally, a special thank you to Jeanette P. Esposito and Sarah P. Voll. John L. Esposito John 0. Voll Washington, D. C. This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Introduction: Muslim Activist Intellectuals and Their Place in History, 3 1 Ismail Ragi al-Faruqi: Pioneer in Muslim-Christian Relations, 23 2 Khurshid Ahmad: Muslim Activist-Economist, 39 3 Maryam Jameelah: A Voice of Conservative Islam, 54 4 Hasan Hanafi: The Classic Intellectual, 68 5 Rashid Ghannoushi: Activist in Exile, 91 6 Hasan al-Turabi: The Mahdi-Lawyer, 118 7 Abdolkarim Soroush and Critical Discourse in Iran, by Valla Vakili, 150 8 Anwar Ibrahim: Activist Moderate, 177 9 Abdurrahman Wahid: Scholar-President, 199 Notes, 217 Suggestions for Further Reading, 241 Index, 245
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