Ebook: Reconfiguring Islamic tradition : reform, rationality, and modernity
Author: Muḥammad ʻAbduh, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb, Muḥammad ʻAbduh, Haj Samira, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb
- Tags: Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb -- 1703 or 1704-1792. Muḥammad ʻAbduh -- 1849-1905. Islamic modernism. Islamic renewal. Islam and reason. Islamic philosophy -- History. RELIGION -- Islam -- General. Faith and reason -- Islam. Islamic philosophy.
- Series: Cultural memory in the present
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- City: Stanford, Calif
- Language: English
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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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