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Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Glossary -- Introduction -- The Story of This Book -- The Research Concerns and Questions -- The Book's Content -- Part I Theoretical Approaches and Contexts -- 1 Shariah Education: Its History, Crisis and Approaches -- From Mosque Complexes to University Colleges -- al-Zaytouna -- al-Qarawiyyin -- al-Azhar -- Western Islamic Training Institutes: The French Case -- Three Leading Doctrines: Traditionalism, Salafism and the Maqasidi Approach -- Traditional Inferential Jurisprudence -- Literal Textual Jurisprudence and Strict Salafi Orientations -- Deductive Fiqh and New Issues (Nawazil) Fiqh Under the Maqasid al-Shariah Approach -- The Crisis and Way Out -- Education in Religion Is Not a Religious Education -- Teaching Religions With a Focus on Rituals as a Cultural Studies Course -- Approaching the Study of Religious Being -- Teaching a Religious Subject: Including All the Functions of Religion -- Convening With the Social Sciences: Epistemic Integration -- An Ethical Approach to Social Phenomena -- 2 The Arab Religious Field -- Religiosity and the Political/Social -- The Arab Path of Secularism -- Various Reactions to Post-secularity -- Some Concluding Thoughts -- Three Schools of Fatwas -- How Is Migration Perceived by Religious Authorities? -- European Council for Fatwa and Research (ECFR) -- Concluding Remarks -- The Internal Islamic Reform: New Configurations -- New Reflexive Islamic Knowledge Groups -- Friday Sermons -- Methodology -- Preachers' Profiles -- Sources of Knowledge -- Content Analysis of Friday Sermons -- Reference to General Morality -- The Non-Muslim Others -- Concluding Remarks -- 3 The Islamization of Knowledge: Appraisal and Alternative -- Introduction.

"This book argues that we are not at war with the religion of Islam, and non-Western cultures are by no means destined to oppose liberal political principles. But it also shows that Islamist fundamentalism is an expression of a broader phenomenon observable both inside and outside the West that testifies to the power of tradition and religion (whether Muslim or Christian) to resist (and even revolt against) modernity in search of an alternative mode of political existence"--