Focuses on how Christians and Muslims connect their traditions to modernity, looking at understandings of history, changing patterns of authority, and approaches to freedom. This volume includes a selection of relevant texts from 19th- and 20th-century thinkers, from John Henry Newman to Tariq Ramadan, accompanied by illuminating commentaries.

Introduction David Marshall Part I: Surveys 1. Tradition and History in Islam: Primitivism in Islamic Thought and ScriptureVincent J. Cornell 2. TraditionJanet Soskice3. Religious Authority and the Challenges of ModernityPhilip Jenkins4. Between Traditional and New Forms of Authority in Modern IslamRecep enturk5. Freedoms of Speech and Religion in the Islamic ContextAbdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im6. Christianity, Modernity, and FreedomDavid Bentley Hart Part II: Christian and Muslim Thinkers on Tradition and Modernity7. John Henry Newman (1801-90)TextsNewman on Revelation, Hermeneutics, and ConscienceStephen M. Fields8. Muhammad 'Abduh (1849-1905)TextsMuhammad 'Abduh: A Sufi-Inspired Modernist?Vincent J. Cornell9. Sayyid Abu l-A'la' Mawdudi (1903-79)TextsMawdudi and the Challenges of ModernityAbdullah Saeed10. Lesslie Newbigin (1909-98)TextsNewbigin and the Critique of ModernityPaul Weston11. Alasdair MacIntyre (1929- )TextMacIntyre on TraditionJohn Milbank12. Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1933- )TextsSeyyed Hossein Nasr on Tradition and ModernityJoseph E. B. Lumbard13. Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza (1938- )TextsElisabeth Schussler Fiorenza: A Christian Feminist Responds to Betrayals of the TraditionLucy Gardner14. Tariq Ramadan (1962- )TextsTariq Ramadan's Tryst with Modernity: Toward a European Muslim TraditionSajjad Rizvi Afterword Rowan Williams Index

This book engages not only scholars, but also all believers who care about the future of humanity and the role religion has in contributing to a better coexistence and cooperation between different cultures and ideologies. Islamochristiana Indispensable reading for all those with an interest in contemporary Christianity and Islam. Church Times

The relation of ancient sacred traditions to modernity has been central and sometimes deeply troubling for all religions. These timely and searching essays reflect on that relationship with learning, imagination, and openness. It is indispensable reading for all those concerned with contemporary Christianity and Islam.

The relation of ancient sacred traditions to modernity has been central and sometimes deeply troubling for all religions. These timely and searching essays reflect on that relationship with learning, imagination, and openness. It is indispensable reading for all those concerned with contemporary Christianity and Islam. -- Gavin D'Costa, professor of Catholic theology, University of Bristol Any serious discussion of the relations between tradition and modernity, and of the many ways in which these may be construed and pursued within faiths which between them comprise half of humanity, is genuinely important. But more than that, this book is an education in modes of thinking outside the individualistic positivist paradigm and an introduction to the special character of the dialogue between theology and historical sociology as disciplines sharing similar hermeneutic problems. -- David Martin, Fellow of the British Academy and Emeritus Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics