Critique of Religious Discourse

by نصر حامد أبو زيد and Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid

An important work of contemporary Islamic thought argues against the programmatic use of Islamic religious texts to support fundamentalist beliefs

First published in Arabic in 1994, progressive Muslim scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd's controversial essay argued that conventional fundamentalist interpretations of the Quran and other Islamic religious texts are ahistorical and misleading. Conservative religious leaders accused him of apostasy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300207123
• ISBN13: 9780300207125
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.5"