Mohd Kamal Hassan, Voice of Islamic Moderation from the Malay World

Abstract

This volume collects eleven essays produced over the past decade by ‘Distinguished Professor’ (the highest academic distinction in Malaysia - in Malay: Professor Ulung) Mohd Kamal Hassan, who took his doctorate in Contemporary Islamic Thought from Columbia University (1976). Professor Hassan’s intended audience is non-Muslims worldwide as well as in Malaysia. He states in his introduction: “We purposely chose to address and converse with the Western-educated and middle class non-Muslims who read and communicate in English, because they have been exposed the most to Western thought and the biased Western perspectives on Islam and Muslims.