TY - BOOK AU - Yu,Chi-chung Andy TI - Thinking between Islam and the West: the thoughts of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Bassam Tibi and Tariq Ramadan T2 - Studies in the history of religious and political pluralism SN - 978-3-0343-0795-6 U1 - 210.94 23A PY - 2014/// CY - Oxford, Bern, Berlin [etc.] PB - Peter Lang KW - Islamic modernism KW - Islamic renewal KW - Islam KW - 20th century KW - Nasr, Seyyed Hossein KW - Tibi, Bassam KW - Ramadan, Tariq KW - East and West KW - Relations N1 - Bibliogr. p. 245-260 N2 - In this book, the author assesses the social vision of three western Muslim intellectuals, Seyyed H. Nasr, Bassam Tibi and Tariq Ramadan. He finds that the thoughts of Nasr and his students promote a kind of tradition-based society, which is in harmony with the Divine Law in Islam and a hierarchical structure of society. The thoughts of Tibi advocate the concept of Euro-Islam, which tries to rationalize Islam and renders it a personal religion in the private domain. Finally, the thoughts of Ramadan emphasize a communicative society, in which dialogue between Muslims and non-Muslims on public affairs is crucial ER -