An introduction to and overview of the debates and questions emerging regarding Islam and modernity. Key issues are selected to give readers an understanding of the complexity of the phenomenon, an historical perspective, and access to several manifestations of modernity in Muslim life.
Muhammad Khalid Masud is chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology in Islamabad. Armando Salvatore is associate professor of political sociology of modern and contemporary Islam at the Oriental Studies University, Naples. Martin van Bruinessen is professor of the comparative study of contemporary Muslim societies at Utrecht University.