New Directions in Islamic Thought

I just received my copy of New Directions in Islamic Thought: Exploring Reform and Tradition, edited by Kari Vogt, Lena Larsen and myself, and published by I. B. Tauris. This volume is just the sort of thing that I hoped to work with when I went into Religious Studies, so I am very satisfied to have helped bring it out.

New Directions is a collection of articles on Islamic reform, by Muslim scholars committed to that project and on its intellectual cutting edge. It has grown out of a series of international workshops organized by the Oslo Coalition on Freedom of Religion or Belief in Yogyakarta, Sarajevo, and Istanbul since 2004. The contributors¹ come from diverse backgrounds — Sunni and Shi‘i, traditional disciplines and modern social studies, and so on — and use a variety of methodological approaches.

I haven’t written anything on this blog for a long time, and the longer I wait, the more I feel that I need something significant to say before I hit the “submit” button again — but this seems a fitting occasion to start again.

You can find the book on the I. B. Tauris site, on Amazon (UK, U.S.), and so on…