Uriya Shavit is Associate Professor of Islamic studies and Head of the Graduate Program in Religious Studies at Tel Aviv University. His main research interests lie in the study of modern Islamic theology, law and politics and the sociology of Muslim minorities in the West. His most recent books are Islamism and the West, Shari‘a and Muslim Minorities and Zionism in Arab Discourses.

• Introduction 1 A Quest for Reason and Freedom 2 Islam and Science 3 Islam and Democracy Conclusion

"Highly recommended reading not only for scholars and students interested in the history of modern Islamic ideas but to anybody who cares about the proper relationship between religious faith, science and politics in the Islamic world today." Professor Torkel Brekke, author of Fundamentalism: Prophecy and Protest in an Age of Globalization (2012)"Uriya Shavit shows with great erudition that the modernist-apologists are not a thing of the past. The discourse of ʿAbduh and Rida still inspires Arab Muslim scholars and intellectuals to formulate alternatives to both secularism and intransigent Islamism." Professor Martin Riexinger, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark

Uriya Shavit is Associate Professor of Islamic studies and Head of the Graduate Program in Religious Studies at Tel Aviv University. His main research interests lie in the study of modern Islamic theology, law and politics and the sociology of Muslim minorities in the West. His most recent books are Islamism and the West, Shari‘a and Muslim Minorities and Zionism in Arab Discourses.

• Introduction 1 A Quest for Reason and Freedom 2 Islam and Science 3 Islam and Democracy Conclusion

"Highly recommended reading not only for scholars and students interested in the history of modern Islamic ideas but to anybody who cares about the proper relationship between religious faith, science and politics in the Islamic world today." Professor Torkel Brekke, author of Fundamentalism: Prophecy and Protest in an Age of Globalization (2012)"Uriya Shavit shows with great erudition that the modernist-apologists are not a thing of the past. The discourse of ʿAbduh and Rida still inspires Arab Muslim scholars and intellectuals to formulate alternatives to both secularism and intransigent Islamism." Professor Martin Riexinger, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark

Uriya Shavit is Associate Professor of Islamic studies and Head of the Graduate Program in Religious Studies at Tel Aviv University. His main research interests lie in the study of modern Islamic theology, law and politics and the sociology of Muslim minorities in the West. His most recent books are Islamism and the West, Shari‘a and Muslim Minorities and Zionism in Arab Discourses.

• Introduction 1 A Quest for Reason and Freedom 2 Islam and Science 3 Islam and Democracy Conclusion

"Highly recommended reading not only for scholars and students interested in the history of modern Islamic ideas but to anybody who cares about the proper relationship between religious faith, science and politics in the Islamic world today." Professor Torkel Brekke, author of Fundamentalism: Prophecy and Protest in an Age of Globalization (2012)"Uriya Shavit shows with great erudition that the modernist-apologists are not a thing of the past. The discourse of ʿAbduh and Rida still inspires Arab Muslim scholars and intellectuals to formulate alternatives to both secularism and intransigent Islamism." Professor Martin Riexinger, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark