Islam and knowledge

Overview of contemporary Islamic thought

Author: Mohamed Oudihat - Contemporary Muslim Thinkers Collection - Editions: Héritage & Current Islam

When the modern world is in crisis and all of the natural and human sciences participate in structuring the world that we want to change, can Islamic thought still conform blindly to the ideas of modernity? Or, on the contrary, should it not participate in producing a new discourse on the world to make it better, by working with different civilizational partners?

This book offers an overview of contemporary Islamic thought to provide the reader with a tool of understanding and orientation necessary to overcome confusion. To do this, he chooses the theme of Islam & knowledge as a window to observe the way in which the 8 major trends in Islamic thought are positioned today: apologetic, religious, mystical, modernist, postmodernist, decolonial discourses. , hybrids and the “new Islamic discourse” of Islam as a universal source of wisdom and knowledge about the world.

This book is part of the Contemporary Muslim Thinkers collection launched by Current Islam. This new collection aims to give the public the opportunity to discover the work of scholars and thinkers who took seriously the great idea of Islam and its universality, in order to try to shed light on today's challenges. .