Carool Kersten’s highly informative book comes closest to truly qualifying as providing a global overview of contemporary Muslim thought in both Muslim minority and majority contexts, which is what it claims to do. This book leaves just about no stone left unturned when it comes to offering an overview of the intellectual landscape of contemporary Muslim thought. Of particular importance is the rare acknowledgment of progressive Muslim thinking as an independent and coherent intellectual category in its own right, which I have theorized on and discussed at length elsewhere for over a decade.1 Also, unlike other works on contemporary Muslim thought, which are usually dominated by studies on scholars from the Middle East and South Asia or have either a Sunni or a Shi’i focus, this book not only gives due consideration to the important ideas of academics and intellectuals across the major sectarian divide but also incorporates views from scholars based in Indonesia, such as Nurkolich Majid and Yudian Wahyudi, and to a lesser extent those from Malayasia.