Tradition and Modernity

Introduction David Marshall Part I: Surveys 1. Tradition and History in Islam: Primitivism in Islamic Thought and ScriptureVincent J. Cornell 2. TraditionJanet Soskice3. Religious Authority and the Challenges of ModernityPhilip Jenkins4. Between Traditional and New Forms of Authority in Modern IslamRecep enturk5. Freedoms of Speech and Religion in the Islamic ContextAbdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im6. Christianity, Modernity, and FreedomDavid Bentley Hart Part II: Christian and Muslim Thinkers on Tradition and Modernity7. John Henry Newman (1801-90)TextsNewman on Revelation, Hermeneutics, and ConscienceStephen M. Fields8. Muhammad 'Abduh (1849-1905)TextsMuhammad 'Abduh: A Sufi-Inspired Modernist?Vincent J. Cornell9. Sayyid Abu l-A'la' Mawdudi (1903-79)TextsMawdudi and the Challenges of ModernityAbdullah Saeed10. Lesslie Newbigin (1909-98)TextsNewbigin and the Critique of ModernityPaul Weston11. Alasdair MacIntyre (1929- )TextMacIntyre on TraditionJohn Milbank12. Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1933- )TextsSeyyed Hossein Nasr on Tradition and ModernityJoseph E. B. Lumbard13. Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza (1938- )TextsElisabeth Schussler Fiorenza: A Christian Feminist Responds to Betrayals of the TraditionLucy Gardner14. Tariq Ramadan (1962- )TextsTariq Ramadan's Tryst with Modernity: Toward a European Muslim TraditionSajjad Rizvi Afterword Rowan Williams Index