Legitimizing Modernity in Islam

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Legitimizing Modernity in Islam is written by Husain Kassim and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 077346235X (ISBN 10) and 9780773462359 (ISBN 13).

Kassim (Islamic studies and law and Medieval philosophy, U. of Central Florida) draws from his classroom lectures and seminar sessions to explore current and possible relationships between Islam and modernity. He emphasizes that as long as modernity and Islamic history are seen only through a Western lens, nobody will be able to understand what is happening. Among his topics are the concept of knowledge in Western modernity and the Muslim modus vivendi, jihad and just war, the concept of freedom and equality in Western modernity and the concept of obedience and justice in the Muslim modus vivendi, human rights, gender relations, banking and finance, the individual, and ethical discourse.