The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Muslim Liberation Theologies (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion)

The definitive reference for Muslim liberation theologies across global contexts Scholarship on Islamic thought has long centered abstract systems over lived Muslim agency.The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Muslim Liberation Theologies shifts this paradigm by introducing Muslim Liberation Theology as a distinct analytic and a theological field of exploration.With over thirty original chapters from scholars representing Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe, this volume maps liberative praxis across Sunni and Shi'i perspectives, minority and majority contexts.The Companion examines theological ethics, resistance, liberatory practices, and sustainable change through conceptual essays and detailed case studies.Coverage spans prisons, grassroots movements, intellectual debates, historical and present case studies, and institutional contexts while engaging pressing issues including the War on Terror's aftermath, authoritarian rollback following the Arab Spring, Islamophobia, Gaza and Palesti