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During the fifteenth general election (GE15) in 2022 and the state elections in 2023, the clash between Anwar Ibrahim and PAS reached new heights. This can be viewed as a battle between political Islam and post-Islamism. Political Islam as embodied by PAS pursues the establishment of an Islamic state, while post-Islamism as represented by Anwar Ibrahim is a way of balancing the ambitions of Islam with secular approaches. While PAS has been consistent in espousing political Islam since its establishment, Anwar Ibrahim's approach to the role of Islam in politics has changed since his early days in UMNO. Evolving from an Islamist involved in state-led Islamization to a post-Islamist, he now espouses democratic values and multiculturalism. The results of GE15 and the 2023 state elections between PAS and Anwar Ibrahim, who is now prime minister, show that there will certainly be sequels to come. The elections illustrate that political Islam is growing in strength. This is most evident in the fact that PAS currently has a whopping forty-three seats in the Malaysian parliament, and controls four states. The only way Anwar Ibrahim can remain in power is through assistance from PAS' old nemesis, UMNO, a party heavily tainted by corruption.

Muhammad Iqbal (d. 1938) was one of the most influential modernist Islamic thinkers of the early twentieth century. His work as a poet, politician, philosopher, and public intellectual was widely recognized in his lifetime and plays a major role in contemporary conversations about Islam, modernity, and tradition. God, Science, and Self examines the patterns of reasoning at work in Iqbal's philosophic magnum opus, arguably the most significant text of modernist Islamic philosophy, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam.

A systematic treatment of the religious, intellectual, cultural, and social foundations of the Islamic resurgence in the modern Arab world that is grounded in the larger context of Arab and Islamic intellectual history.

Long description: Geschichtskonstrukt und Konfession analysiert nicht die Werke professioneller Historiker. Vielmehr untersucht die vorliegende Studie in bewusstem Kontrast dazu die in den Köpfen herrschenden Geschichtsbilder der Nicht-Historiker. Eine ausführliche historische Einleitung zu den Entstehungsgeschichten und kulturellen Grundlagen von Maroniten, Orthodoxen, Sunniten, Schiiten und Drusen ermöglicht sowohl Kennern als auch Nichtkennern des Libanon einen idealen Einstieg in die Untersuchung. Die der Arbeit zugrunde liegende Methodik der erinnerungskulturwissenschaftlichen Analyse wird ausführlich und einleuchtend im interdisziplinären Kontext erschlossen. Der Autor verbrachte von 2007 bis 2008 ein Jahr im Libanon zu Feldforschungszwecken. Hierbei konnte er mit mehr als fünfzig Repräsentanten aller großen libanesischen Konfessionen aussagekräftige Interviews führen. Wissenschaftler, Parlamentsabgeordnete, Aktivisten von den Lebanese Forces bis hin zur Hisbollah, Journalisten von Al-Jazeera bis MBC International, religiöse Würdenträger, Bankiers und Regierungsberater gewähren dem Leser ungewöhnlich offene Einblicke in ihre zumeist hochkomplexen und kritischen Vorstellungen der libanesischen Geschichte. Ihre Wahrnehmung der eigenen Gruppe und ihre Urteile über die historischen Rollen anderer Konfessionen führen auf geradezu intime Art und Weise in die Gefühlswelt und mannigfaltig schillernden Identitäten eines Landes ein, welches wie kein zweites die extremsten Widersprüche und nahezu alle Problemlagen des Mittleren Ostens wie in einem Mikrokosmos in sich vereint.

This is the first book-length presentation of Muhammad Shahrur's ideas in English, explaining his ideas on the need for a contemporary re-reading of the Qur'an, a reform of Islamic law and the necessity of freedom of belief in Islam, and other vital issues of Islamic thought and practice.

This survey of more than one century of inner-Islamic ecumenical activities in modern times concentrates on the role of the Cairo-based Azhar University and its relations to Shiite scholars. Particular emphasis is laid on the mutual dependency of theology and politics in the modern Islamic discourse.