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Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Note on Transliteration and Other Conventions -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Abstract -- 1.1 Objectives of the Book -- 1.2 Muslim Modernism and Muslim Modernists -- 1.3 Structure of the Thesis -- 1.4 Brief Literature Survey and Significance of the Book -- Chapter 2 Life and Character: From Birth to the Formation of a Social Reformer -- Abstract -- 2.1 Early Life-The Formative Period -- 2.2 Academic Endeavour -- 2.3 Making and Unmaking of Nassirism -- 2.4 Islamic Activist in the Making -- 2.5 Next Destination-France/Life in France -- 2.6 Back Home (Tunisia) and Social Reformer in the Making -- Chapter 3 Sociopolitical Activities -- Abstract -- 3.1 Post-independent Tunisian Atmosphere and the Emergence of a Social Reformer -- 3.2 Transformation: Social Activism to Political Activism -- 3.3 Formation of Ḥarkah al-Ittijah al-Islāmı and the Period Onward -- Chapter 4 Works of Rāshid al-Ghannūshiˉ: An Exploration -- Abstract -- 4.1 Al-HurrIˉyyāt al-'Āmah fIˉ al-Dawlah al-Islāmiyyah (Civil Liberties in the Islamic State) -- 4.2 Al-Mar'ah Bayn al-Qur'ān wa Wāqi' al-MuslimIˉn (The Woman Between the Qur'ān and the Muslim Reality) -- 4.3 Ḥuqūq al-Muwāṭanah: Ḥuqūq ghayr al-Muslim fIˉ al-Mujtama' al-IslāmIˉ (The Right to Nationality Status of Non-Muslim Citizens in a Muslim Nation) -- 4.4 Muqāribāt fIˉ al-'Ilmāniyyah wa al-Mujtama' al-MadanIˉ (Approaches to Secularism and Civil Society) -- 4.5 Min al-Fikr al-IslāmIˉ fIˉ Tūnis (From the Islamic Thought in Tunisia) -- 4.6 Al-Qadar 'Inda Ibn Taymiyyah (Predestination: Ibn Taymiiyyah's Perspective) -- Chapter 5 Rāshid al-Ghannūshiˉ on Islam-West Relationship and Human Rights -- Abstract -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Islam-West Relationship -- 5.3 Human Rights -- 5.3.1 Concept of Freedom.

The author of this work has long been known as a reformist or moderate Islamist thinker. In this text he argues that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - in its broad outlines - meets with wide acceptance among Muslims if their interpretation of Islamic law is correct. Under his theory of the purposes of Sharia, justice and human welfare are not exclusive to Islamic governance, and the objectives of Islamic law can be advanced in multiple ways. The volume examines the Western concept of freedom and the Islamic perspective on freedom and human rights, basic democratic principles, the basic principles of an Islamic political system, the concept of tyranny across three different schools of thought, and concludes with an examination of the solutions in Islamic thought that can curb state tyranny, for the benefit of freedom, justice, and the human rights of citizens.

Many Muslim intellectuals and political activists have begun to move beyond classical political Islam to embrace a more pluralistic, democratic order by developing the concept of 'Muslim democracy'. Perhaps the most prominent example is the Tunisian Ennahda Party, which declared itself to no longer be 'Islamist' but a 'Muslim Democratic' party in 2016. While there has been some scholarship on the phenomenon of 'Muslim democracy', this book represents the first volume in English to offer a translation of primary source texts elaborating its ideological contours.

The scope and limitation of post-1967 Arab thought -- Contemporary Arab intellectual trends -- Secularism and its hazards : the recent debate in the Arab world -- Contemporary Arab philosophical views of secularism -- Formation of contemporary identities : nationalism and Islamism in contemporary Arab thought -- Traditional values, social change and the contemporary Arab personality -- Globalization : a contemporary Islamic response? -- Contemporary Arab thought and globalization -- Rāshid Ghannūshī and the questions of Sharīʻah and civil society -- Muslim self-criticism in contemporary Arab thought : the case of Shaykh Muḥammad al-Ghazālī -- Islam and Muslims in crisis -- Toward a critical Arab reason : the contributions of Muḥammad ʻĀbid al-Jābīrī -- Towards modern Arab reason -- Costantine Zurayk and the search for Arab nationalism -- Mahdī ʻĀmil and the unfinished project of Arab marxist philosophy -- Abdallah Laroui : from objective marxism to liberal etatism