Islam's Renewal

Derek Hopwood is Emeritus Fellow of the Middle East Centre of St Antony’s College, Oxford, UK, where he taught modern Middle East studies for over thirty years. He was Visiting Professor at the Universities of Provence, Pennsylvania, Khartoum and Ain Shams. He was founding secretary of the British Society for Middle East Studies and the Middle Libraries Committee and their European equivalents. He is the author or editor of and contributor to numerous books on Middle East and Islamic studies.

• Part I Revolt.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Libya; first experience of the Arab world and Islam.- 3. How the Middle East came to be studied.-4. Leaders of revival in Islam.- 5. Two historical movements.- 6  Leaders and state formation.- 7 Leaders against colonialism.- Part II Islamic renewal; calls for reform.- 8. A way of approaching Islamic history.- 9. Thinkers, not activists.- 10. What is modernity in Islam.- Part III Revolts renewed.- 11. Features of later twentieth and twenty first century movements.- 12. Renewal again.- 13. The post-modern era; the rage of Islam.- 14. Post-modern reaction.- 15. Palestine; the root cause of Muslim despair? .- 16 Conclusion; a hope for tolerance.