Dynamics of Islam in the Modern World

Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh, Ph.D. (2013), is a habilitated lecturer of Islamic Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany. His publications on Islamic Studies, Sufism and comparative mysticism include Practical Mysticism in Islam and Christianity (Routledge, 2016) and Sufism East and West (Brill, 2019; co-edited with Jamal Malik).Armina Omerika, Ph.D. (2009), is Professor of Intellectual History of Islam at the Goethe University Frankfurt. She has published widely on the history of modern Islam, including Islam in Bosnien-Herzegowina und die Netzwerke der Jungmuslime, 1918-1983 (Harrasowitz, 2014).Thomas K. Gugler, Ph.D. (2011), University of Erfurt, is a member of the Frankfurt Research Center on Global Islam (FFGI) at Goethe University. His monographs include Mission Medina (Ergon, 2011) and Ozeanisches Gefühl der Unsterblichkeit (LIT, 2009).Michael E. Asbury, Ph.D. (2021), University of Erfurt, completed his doctoral studies at the Chair of Muslim Cultural and Religious History. His dissertation is entitled Seeing with the Heart: The Mysticism of an Islamic Sufi Lineage from India in the West.

‘The multiple engagements of Islam—Muslim actors and texts, collectivities and institutions—within the folds of modernity are boldly charted in this book. It is a volume that all will welcome.’Bruce B. Lawrence, Duke University‘This collection of essays is an important and welcome contribution to scholarship on the dynamic forces that shape the ways in which contemporary Muslim communities interpret and engage with Islam. Multidisciplinary in its approaches, it examines, through case studies from South Asia, the Middle East and Euro-America, the impact of Western hegemony as well as ideologies such as secularism, scientism and nationalism on modern Muslim thought, practices and institutions.’ Ali S. Asani, Harvard University‘This volume treats us to a kaleidoscopic prism refracting the tensions and richness through which Muslim life and Islamic ideas are weaved into the fabric of global society. Offering us multiple windows into the intellectual legacy of Jamal Malik, it diagnoses multiple historical aporias inherited by the global age we are living through, squeezed between the unrelenting surges of Western normative hubris and the epistemic fragility of dialogic openings.’ Armando Salvatore, McGill University

• AcknowledgementsNotes on TransliterationList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Dynamics of Islam in the Modern World, Ali Altaf MianPart 1: Islam, Modernity and Science1. Islam and the Global History of Secularity, Reinhard Schulze2. Negotiating Modernity Through Constructions of History in Modern Muslim Religious Thought, Armina Omerika3. Between Science and Mysticism: Sabir Multani and the Reform of Humoral Medicine in Pakistan, Stefan ReichmuthPart 2: Islamic Activism and Radicalism4. Peaceful and Militant Interpretations of Jihad: A Comparative Study of Contemporary South Asian Exegetes, Tariq Rahman5. The Word of God for the Indian Muslim of Today: Abul Kalam Azad’s Tarjuman al-Qurʾan, Jan-Peter Hartung6. Post-Migrant Dynamics of Islam: Muslim Youth and Salafism in Germany, David Yuzva ClementPart 3: Islamic Normativity and Shariʿa7. Islam and Human Rights: Breaks and Continuity in a Complex Debate, Mouez Khalfaoui8. Islamic Law: The Struggle Against Time, Reik Kirchhof9. Negotiating Everyday Lived Islam: A Case Study of Pakistani Diaspora in Canada, Syed FurrukhZadPart 4: Islamic Mysticism and Globalization10. Prophetic Descent in the Early Modern Tariqa Muhammadiyya Khalisa, Soraya Khodamoradi11. Dynamics of Mystical Islam in the American Space: Ahmed Abdur Rashid’s “Applied Sufism”, Michael E. Asbury and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh12. “Transplanted” Sufism: Complications of a Category, Marcia HermansenPart 5: Islamic Pluralism and Dialogue13. Discourses of Tolerance and Dialogue in Contemporary Islam, Itzchak Weismann14. Religious Pluralism and Religious Plurality in Pakistan, Hasnain BokhariAfterword: Dynamics of Islam in Context, Pnina WerbnerHonoring Jamal MalikTabula GratulatoriaJamal Malik’s Publication ListIndex