An Islamic University in the West and the Question of Modern Authenticity

This chapter presents the overarching framework and tentative findings of the Modern Muslim Subjectivities Project (mmsp). The project aims to explore the role of Islamic traditions in the construction of modern forms of Muslim subjectivities and social orders. It poses questions as to how Muslims have imagined specifically Islamic modernities in combination with non-religious and globally relevant cultural scripts. The chapter introduces the theoretical and conceptual frame of reference of the mmsp and proceeds in three steps, moving from the theoretical macro to the micro levels with illustrative empirical examples from the chapters of this volume.