Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition: Reform, Rationality, and Modernity
Language: English
Published by Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2009
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A nice, bright copy. ; Cultural Memory In The Present; 6 X 0.76 X 9 inches; 284 pages.
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- Title
- Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition: Reform, Rationality, and Modernity
- Author
- Haj, Samira
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press, Stanford
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0804778604
- ISBN 13
- 9780804778602
- Item weight
- 0.9 pounds
- Series
- Book 120 of 213: Cultural Memory in the Present
- Seller catalogs
- Islam
Samira Haj conceptualizes Islam through a close reading of two Muslim reformers―Muhammad ibn 'Abdul Wahhab (1703–1787) and Muhammad 'Abduh (1849–1905)―each representative of a distinct trend, chronological as well as philosophical, in modern Islam. Their works are examined primarily through the prism of two conceptual questions: the idea of the modern and the formation of a Muslim subject. Approaching Islam through the works of these two Muslims, she illuminates aspects of Islamic modernity that have been obscured and problematizes assumptions founded on the oppositional dichotomies of modern/traditional, secular/sacred, and liberal/fundamentalist. The book explores the notions of the community-society and the subject's location within it to demonstrate how Muslims in different historical contexts responded differently to theological and practical questions. This knowledge will help us better understand the conflicts currently unfolding in parts of the Arab world.
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