Shireen T Hunter-Can Islam and Modernity be Reconciled

This question has preoccupied both Muslims and non-Muslims for more than a century, and has elicited sharply contradictory responses.The editor and contributing authors to the " Reformist Voices of Islam : Mediating Islam and Modernity" argue that the two are not irreconcilable, and that a Reformist reading of Islamic sources provides the right medium to satisfy Muslim societies need to accomodate modernity while retaining their cultural identity and values.