Islamic thought in the rise and supremacy of Islamic technological culture : water resources and energy/

Published in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The rise of Islamic reformist thought and its challenge to traditional Islam / Basheer M. Nafi -- The diversity of Islamic thought : towards a typology / William Shepard -- Sufi thought and its reconstruction / Elizabeth Sirriyeh -- Nationalism and culture in the Arab and Islamic worlds : a critique of modern scholarship / Ralph M. Coury -- On the state, democracy and pluralism / Abdelwahab El-Affendi -- The development of Islamic economics : theory and practice / Rodney Wilson -- On gender and the family / Hibba Abugideiri -- Reflections on the West / Jacques Waardenburg -- Perceptions of Christians and Christianity / Hugh Goddard -- Thinking on the Jews / Suha Taji-Farouki.

This book provides in-depth discussions of Islamic thought across the twentieth century, encompassing the breadth of self-expression in Muslim communities world-wide. It explores key themes in modern Islamic thinking, including the social origins and ideological underpinnings of the late nineteenth- early twentieth-century Islamic reformist project, nationalism in the Muslim world, Islamist attitudes towards democracy, the science of Islamic economics, Islamist notions of family and the role of women, Muslim perceptions and constructions of the West, and aspects of Muslim thinking on Christians and Jews. - Publisher.