Critique of Religious Discourse, by Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd

Abstract

Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, Critique of Religious Discourse, Translated by Jonathan Wright; With a Scholarly Introduction by Carool Kersten, Yale University Press, 2018. 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 Isl...