John Esposito and John Voll narrate in their Makers of Contemporary Islam a brief story: “An old Christian acquaintance of al-Faruqi once commented that al-Faruqi believed that Islam was in need of reformation and, he believed, al-Faruqi aspired to be its Luther.”1 Even though this was a sincere assessment, Esposito and Voll speculate that al-Faruqi would have preferred the word mujāhid. Esposito prefers to use this term to describe al-Faruqi, as he did in his “Memoirs of a Scholar and a Mujahid.”2 Although al-Faruqi never referred to himself in this way, portraying him asIslam’s Martin Luther does have some significance to contemporary Islam and Islamic thought.