Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-243) and index.
Introduction: Muslim activist intellectuals and their place in history -- Ismail Ragi al-Faruqi: pioneer in Muslim-Christian relations -- Khurshid Ahmad: Muslim activist-economist -- Maryam Jameelah: a voice of conservative Islam -- Hasan Hanafi: the classic intellectual -- Rashid Ghannoushi: activist in exile -- Hasan al-Turabi: the Mahdi-lawyer -- Abdolkarim Soroush and critical discourse in Iran / Valla Vakili -- Anwar Ibrahim: activist moderate -- Abdurrahman Wahid: scholar-president