Contemporary Islamist movements and new sources for religious tolerance

Examining the question of tolerance through social praxis in the Islamic context, the author focuses on the voice of Islam as a non-assimilative critique of secular modernity. After discussing the controversial cases of Rushdie and Zeid, where the relationship between modernity and Islamic identity presented an important political challenge, she turns to Turkey - and issues of religious marriages and veiling - and suggests that the politics of tolerating difference in Islam requires reconciliation with history as well as a reconcilliation (as in the relationship between Islam and modernity) that must first come from within Islam.