Radical Reform: Islamic Ethics and Liberation

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Tariq Ramadan (Visiting Fellow, St Anthony College, Oxford; Senior Research Fellow Lokahi Foundation, London)

Radical Reform

Islamic Ethics and Liberation

Tariq Ramadan (Visiting Fellow, St Anthony College, Oxford; Senior Research Fellow Lokahi Foundation, London)

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English

Oxford University Press
01 May 2009

Religion & beliefs; Religious issues & debates; Religious ethics; Islamic worship, rites & ceremonies; Islamic life & practice

Tariq Ramadan has emerged as one of the foremost voices of reformist Islam in the West, notable for urging his fellow Muslims to participate fully in the civil life of the Western societies in which they live. In this new book, Ramadan addresses Muslim societies and communities everywhere with a bold call for radical reform. He challenges those who argue defensively that reform is a dangerous and foreign deviation, and a betrayal of the faith. Authentic reform, he says, has always been grounded in Islam's textual sources, spiritual objectives, and intellectual traditions. But the reformist movements that are based on renewed reading of textual sources while using traditional methodologies and categories have achieved only adaptive responses to the crisis facing a globalizing world. Such readings, Ramadan argues, have reached the limits of their usefulness. Ramadan calls for a radical reform that goes beyond adaptation to envision bold and creative solutions to transform the present and the future of our societies. This new approach interrogates the historically established sources, categories, higher objectives, tools, and methodologies of Islamic law and jurisprudence, and the authority this traditional geography of knowledge has granted to textual scholars. He proposes a new geography which redefines the sources and the spiritual and ethical objectives of the law creating room for the authority of scholars of the social and hard sciences. This will equip this transformative reform with the spiritual, ethical, social and scientific knowledge necessary to address contemporary challenges. Ramadan argues that radical reform demands not only the equal contributions of scholars of both the text and the context, but the critical engagement and creative imagination of the Muslim masses. This proposal for radical reform dramatically shifts the center of gravity of authority. It is bound to provoke controversy and spark debate among Muslims and non-Muslims alike.

By: Tariq Ramadan (Visiting Fellow St Anthony College Oxford; Senior Research Fellow Lokahi Foundation London)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 164mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 679g
ISBN: 9780195331714
ISBN 10: 0195331710
Publication Date: 01 May 2009
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Radical Reform: Islamic Ethics and Liberation

Ramadan's 'Radical Reform' promises to be a landmark work of scholarship: essential, unmissable and full of hope. * Karen Shook, THE * The most eagerly anticipated of new works on Islam and the Muslim world comes from Tariq Ramadan. * Karen Shook, THE *