Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives

by John J. Donohue (Editor)

"This book will work out well for my Modern Islam course. With excellent textbooks such as this one and Professor Esposito's Voices of Resurgent Islam , I hope to be able to offer this course more often."--Alford T. Welch, Michigan State University. This sourcebook of fifty-seven modern
Islamic writings show the tensions inherent in the struggle of Muslims to maintain their religious identity in the modern world. Here Muslims speak for themselves, revealing the diversity of Islamic thought.

Genres: Islam, Religion, Nonfiction, History, Middle East

336 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1982

Reviews

[Marwa · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is a very good book for Non-Muslims ... it gives them a wide variety of different opinions by totally different Muslims thinkers in one book. You will realize the degree of pluralism in Islamic thought.

[Patrick · Rating 4 out of 5]

An extremely academic book but excellent. I was tired of understanding Islam and the Arab world through the media and took classes throughout college to learn more. This book is a collection of original writings by seminal thinkers of the modern muslim world from Sayyid Qutb, al-Afghani, to Hamas and the Khomeini. If you want to comprehend the present, you must first learn from the past.

[Alia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Glad there is something like this in print, definitely shows the diversity of Muslim intellectuals/reformers (both good/bad) on various topics. Every Western Muslim that doesn't have access to the original text should own this.