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The article also analyzes the ideas of Altaf Hussain Hali, whose biography of Sayyid Ahmad Khan and poetic meditation on the rise and fall of Islamic civilization (which includes a reflection on European modernity and its consequences for the Muslim community) provide an interesting instance of a response to, and appropriation of.
In the next article, Nadia Abu Zahra presents the ideas of the contemporary Egyptian liberal writer, Husayn Ahmad Amin, which she bases on three books he published in the early eighties on Islam in the modern age.
Because of this and the fact that they were much celebrated in the West where their writings were translated and thoroughly studied, it would have been relevant to see how far their alienation inside their country, while being welcomed in the West, could have influenced their thought In chapter five, Mohamed Mahmoud studies the modernist project of the Sudanese Mahmoud Muhammad Taha, who has drawn the attention of academic circles interested in Islamic reform and liberal thought Indeed, he is one of the founders of the Republican Party (which has faced fierce hostility from both the religious establishment and the Muslim Brothers) and was twice condemned of apostasy - the last of which resulted in his execution in 1985.
In particular, Taibi addresses the relation between religion and social life in Islam and discusses topics such as the interpretation of the Qur'an and Sunnah within their historical context and religious epistemology, as well as broader issues such as women's rights, pluralism, and democracy in modem Islamic societies.