Khurram Hussain is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion Studies at Lehigh University, USA.
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, withinand 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 *