Modern Islamic Thinking and Activism

Erkan Toguslu is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Gulen Chair for Intercultural Studies at KU Leuven University. Johan Leman is Emeritus Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven.

• Introduction 1. Contemporary Islamic Activism and Muslims Erkan Toğuşlu and Johan LemanPart I: Modern Islamic Thinking 2. Fethullah Gülen, Tariq Ramadan and Yusuf al-Qaradawi: The pluralisation of Islamic Knowledge Erkan Toğuşlu 3. Tariq Ramadan and Abdullahi An-Na'im's Islamic gender reform in the Brussels Moroccan community Thierry Limpens 4. The Contribution of Sufism to the Construction of Contemporary Europe's Islam Eric GeoffroyPart II: Secularism, Islam and Public Sphere: Turkey and Egypt 5. Post Secularism, Post-Islamism and Islam in the Public Sphere Ihsan Yılmaz 6. The Arab Revolutions and Islamic Civil Society Emilio Giuseppe Platti 7. The Muslim Brotherhood and the Democratic Experience in Egypt Roel MeijerPart III: Contemporary Islamic Social Activism 8. Social Work, Poverty, Inequality and Social Safety Nets: Voluntary Welfare Organizations Jonathan Benthall 9. Tradition and Modernity in Social Islam: The Case of Muslim NGOs in Jordan Egbert Harmsen 10. Fighting Poverty with Kimse Yok Mu Thomas MichelConclusion 11. Translocality and Hybridization in Current Modern Islamic Activism Erkan Toğuşlu and Johan LemanAbout the authors