Contemporary Thought in the Muslim World: Trends, Themes, and Issues

Abstract

Prior to joining King’s College London in 2007, Carool Kersten was a faculty member at the Centre for International and Graduate Studies at Payap University in Chiangmai, Thailand. His professional expertise and research areas cover intellectual history of the modern and contemporary Muslim world, political Islam, history of Islam in Southeast Asia, Islam in global and interregional contexts, as well as theory and method in the study of religions. This book illustrates how ideas have stimulated a new generation of progressive Muslim thinkers and scholars to radically rethink the ways in which immediate and emergent issues are affecting the contemporary Muslim world in an increasingly interconnected world. Based on the author’s long teaching experience about the intellectual history of the contemporary Muslim world, the contents of this book go well beyond the findings of his own specific projects, extending to wider reading in terms of studying Islam and the Muslim world in general.