Modernist Islam was a major intellectual current in the Muslim world during the 19th and 20th centuries. Proponents of this movement typically believed that it was not only possible but imperative to show how "modern" values and institutions could be reconciled with authentically Islamic ideals. This sourcebook brings together a broad range of writings on modernist Islam from across the Muslim world. It makes available for the first time in English the writings of many of the activists and intellectuals who made up the early modernist Islamic movement. Charles Kurzman and a team of section editors, each specializing in a different region of the Islamic world, have assembled, translated, and annotated the work of the most important of these figures. With the publication of this volume, an English-speaking audience will have wider access to the literature of modernist Islam than did the makers of the movement themselves.
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Charles Kurzman, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina.
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Remarkably valuable sourcebook,
This review is from: Modernist Islam, 1840-1940: A Sourcebook (Paperback)
I don't imagine that anybody but students of the Modern Middle East or the Islamic World would find this useful, but for specialists in the field, this is an exceptionally valuable text. There are several points to commend this particular compilation. First, the introductory essay is very good. Second, the range of readings is geographically and topically broad. And third, one can search for essays both by region and by topic. It is an easy source to use for classroom study.
For those who don't have a significant background in the field, this work is likely to be unsatisfying, consisting largely of readings from 19th and early 20th Century Muslim intellectuals. For those with more than a passing interest, this collection certainly gives a sense of major issues and perspectives and would make a good companion to secondary source readings.
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Abu Bakr, Abu Hanifa, Central Asia, Ibn Hajar, Ibn Taymiyya, South Africa, Haji Ahmad, New York, Oxford University Press, Sayyid Jamal, Common Law, Ibn Badis, Abi Talib, Abu Yusuf, Imam Ahmad, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Ali Suavi, Glorious Qur'an, Imam Malik, Monsieur Renan, Musa Kazim, Qasim Amin, Muhammad ibn Isma'il, Shaykh Muhammad, Abu Hamid Muhammad New!
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- Encylopaedia of Islam: New Edition Vol. 4 (Encyclopaedia of Islam New Edition) by B. Lewis in Front Matter, page 273, and page 304
- The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia (Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies) by Adeeb Khalid on page 227, page 244, and page 257
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World (4 Volume Set) by John L. Esposito on page 93, page 277, and page 316
- Reform within Islam: The Tajdid and Jadid Movement Among the Kazan Tatars (1809-1917) by Ahmet Kanlidere on page 232, page 238, and page 254
- Islamic Reform: Politics and Social Change in Late Ottoman Syria (Studies in Middle Eastern History) by David Dean Commins in Front Matter, and page 181
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