Contemporary Issues in Islam

Reading no more than the contents section of this book, one gets a pretty good idea of its considerable overall importance, dealing as it is with “The Shoals of Modernity”; Political Islam; Islamic Gender Hermeneutics; War and Peace Making in Muslim Tradition; American Muslims; and interfaith Relations. Professor of Islamic Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington (Indiana) and being a Carnegie Scholar (2015), Afsaruddin is the author of several books including, The First Muslims: History and Memory (2008) and Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought (2013). She gladly admits, though, the influence on her of authorities like Muhammad [Abduh, al-Afghani, Talal Asad, Muhammad Sa[id Ramadan al-Buti, Shah Wali Allah Dihlawi, John Esposito, Josef van Ess, Ernest Gellner, al-Ghazali, Nilüfer Göle, Jürgen Habermas, Muhammad Iqbal, Hans Küng, Wilferd Madelung, al-Mawardi, Fatima Mernissi, Reinhold Niebuhr, Fathi Osman, Sayyid Qutb, Fazlur Rahman, Edward Said, Mahmud Shaltut, Ibn Taymiyyah, Amina Wadud and Max Weber, among others.