Reform and Its Perils in Contemporary Islam: The Case of Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd

by Nadia Oweidat

The Egyptian scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (1943-2010) was one of the 20th century's foremost Islamic modernists. A professor of Islamic thought in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at Cairo University, as well as a practising Muslim, Abu Zayd became well known in Egypt and beyond when the Egyptian Court of Appeals declared him an apostate in 1995, a judgment that, in mainstream interpretations of Islamic law, can carry the death penalty...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197744095
• ISBN13: 9780197744093
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"