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Islam and modernity : Muslim intellectuals respond
Title:
Islam and modernity : Muslim intellectuals respond
Author:
Cooper, John, 1947 August 24-
Publication Information:
London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed by St. Martin's Press, 1998.
Physical Description:
xii, 228 pages ; 23 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction : the culture of modernity in Islam and the Middle East / Nature, hyperbole, and the colonial state : some Muslim appropriations of European modernity in late nineteenth-century Urdu literature / Limits of the sacred : the epistemology of ʻAbd al-Karim Soroush / Islamic scholar and religious leader : Shaikh Muhammad Saʻid Ramadan al-Buti / Islamic history, Islamic identity and the reform of Islamic law : the thought of Husayn Ahmad Amin / Mahmud Muhammad Taha's second message of Islam and his modernist project / Mohamed Talbi's ideas on Islam and politics : a conception of Islam for the modern world / Can modern rationality shape a new religiosity? Mohamed Abed Jabri and the paradox of Islam and modernity / Islam, Europe, the West : meanings-at-stake and the will-to power / Divine attributes in the Qur'an : some poetic aspects
ISBN:
9781860641756
Format :
Book