Foreword Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction Constructing Pathways to Contemporary Islam Mohamad Nawab Section 1 Chapter 1: Pathways to Modern Islam Ali Allawi Chapter 2: A Theoretical Pathway to Contemporary Islam Iulia Lumina Section 2 Chapter 3: A New Approach to Islamic Intellectual Tradition Ali Unsal Chapter 4: The Best and Most Trying of Times: Islamic Education and the Challenge of Modernity Robert Hefner Chapter 5: The Function of Myths in the Justification of Muslim Extremism Syed Farid Alatas Section 3 Chapter 6: Building Trust in the Democratic Process: the Role of Islamists in Tunisia's Post-Arab Spring Transitional Politics Saleena Saleem Chapter 7: The Failure of Political Islam Revisited Olivier Roy Chapter 8: Regaining the Islamic Centre? A Malaysian Chronicle of Moderation and its Discontents Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid Section 4 Chapter 9: Enhancing Dialogue Between Religious Traditions. An Islamic Perspective x Osman Bakar Chapter 10: The Ethical in Shari'a Practices: Deliberations in Search of an Effective Paradigm Ebrahim Moosa Chapter 11: The New Horizons of Piety: Religiosity and Moral Agency in the Modern World Sahar Amer Index