Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors
1: Suha Taji-Farouki: Introduction
2: Abdullah Saeed: Fazlur Rahman: a framework for interpreting the ethico-legal content of the Qur'an
3: Anthony H. Johns and Abdullah Saeed: Nurcholish Madjid and the interpretation of the Qur'an: religious pluralism and tolerance
4: Asma Barlas: Amina Wadud's hermeneutics of the Qur'an: women rereading sacred texts
5: Ursula Günther: Mohammed Arkoun: towards a radical rethinking of Islamic thought
6: Navid Kermani: From revelation to interpretation: Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd and the literary study of the Qur'an
7: Farzin Vahdat: Post-revolutionary Islamic modernity in Iran: the inter-subjective hermeneutics of Mohamad Mojtahed Shabestari
8: Ronald L. Nettler: Mohamed Talbi on understanding the Qur'an
9: Osman Tastan: Hüseyin Atay's approach to understanding the Qur'an
10: Andreas Christmann: 'The form is permanent, but the content moves': The Qur'anic text and its interpretation(s) in Mohamed Shahrour's al-Kitab wal-Qur'an
11: Suha Taji-Farouki: Modern intellectuals, Islam, and the Qur'an: the example of Sadiq Nayhum

Reviews

`Review from previous edition Lay persons and scholars alike will benefit from the tone and the content of this timely volume.'
Bruce B. Lawrence, Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Religion, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina