Prologue Introduction 1. The Language of Reform 2. Modernism and Humanism 3. The Meaning and End of Time 4. The Viva Activa 5. Knowledge and Wisdom Epilogue: Can the Muslims Speak? Notes Bibliography Index
Offers a new way of considering Islam as a means of understanding modernity and the modern condition, in contrast to Western thought.
Khurram Hussain is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion Studies at Lehigh University, USA.
This provocative and thoughtful book will animate the interest of a
range of scholars in Islamic Studies, South Asian Studies,
Politics, Philosophy, and Postcolonial thought; it will also work
as a great text to teach in courses on these and other topics.
*New Books Network*
Khurram Hussain’s Islam as Critique: Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the
Challenge of Modernity is an important and highly original book …
The book’s offerings are daring and original, and the style is
engaging.
*Journal of Islamic Ethics*
“This book is a welcome foray into uncharted territory. Hussain's
ambition is to parallel and create a modern version of Sayyid Ahmad
Khan's “mediated voice, the quintessentially Muslim voice, finding
harmony in discord, and incorporating difference as an essential
feature of a verdant, vigorous Islam”. The message is at once
compelling and productive, making this a volume of intense interest
to multiple audiences, within and beyond the academy.”
*Bruce B. Lawrence, Marcus Family Humanities Professor of Religion
Emeritus, Duke University, USA*
“In a world where ponderous and pretentious prose is an
occupational hazard, Khurram Hussain is witty, even electric,
writer, and a nimble and adventurous thinker. He is one of the few
thinkers who could address both the absurdities and maddening
realities of our long post-9/11 moment by treating the Islamic
response to Western modernity not as an external but as an internal
critique. Hussain shows that Sayyid Ahmad Khan, far from the figure
of longstanding sympathetic and hostile caricatures, provides
fertile resources for an Islamic, yet cosmopolitan, critique and
reconstruction of modernity.”
*Andrew F. March, Associate Professor of Political Science,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA*
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