Contemporary debates in Islam : an anthology of modernist and fundamentalist thought
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Contemporary debates in Islam : an anthology of modernist and fundamentalist thought
Macmillan, c2000
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Bibliography: p. [373]-376
Includes index
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A remarkable development occurred in the Islamic world during the second half of the 19th century. A group of prominent Muslim theologians began to critically examine classical conceptions and methods of jurisprudence and devised a new approach to Islamic theology. This new approach was nothing short of an outright rebellion against Islamic orthodoxy, displaying an astonishing compatibility with 19th century Enlightenment era thought. In the 20th century, this modernist movement declined, to be replaced by another cultural episode, characterized by the growing power of Islamic fundamentalism. This volume looks at these two very different approaches to Islam, illustrating how Islamic modernism and fundamentalism were discourses each being an organized set of signs consisting of a conceptual framework, symbolic order, and ritualistic behaviour. The editors have selected the most prominent Islamic thinkers of modernist and fundamentalist viewpoints, diverse nationalities, and from both the late decades of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century.
The writers discuss their own views with regard to such issues as philosophical and political perceptions of democracy, the state, the history of Islam, women's rights, personal lifestyle, education, and the West. The essays reveal what is sharp and what is subtle in the differences between modernism and fundamentalism, and offer the reader a variety of perspectives from contemporary Islamic thought.
Table of Contents
- CONTENTS: Introduction PART ONE: ISLAMIC MODERNISM Islamic Jurisprudence, Rational Sciences, and Differentiation of Knowledge Religion Versus Science
- Sayyid Jamal al-Din Al-Afghani Islamic Revealed Law Versus Islamic Common Law
- Chiragh Ali The Rationalistic and Philosophical Spirit of Islam
- Amir Ali The Sociological Laws of the Quran
- Muhammad Abduh Scientific Reform of Religious Studies
- Muhammad Abduh Methodology of Historical Writing
- Shibli Nu'mani Islam and Politics War and Peace: Popular Jihad
- Chiragh Ali The Problem of Caliphate
- Ali Abd al-Raziq Islamic Government Under Omar the Great
- Shibli Nu'mani Authority of the Problem of Succession
- Amir Ali Intellectual Pluralism and Freedom of Opinion
- Sayyid Ahmad Khan Islam and Western Civilization Modernist Economic and Social Project
- Aligarh Institute Gazette Islam and Civilization
- Muhammad Farid Wajdi Islamic Modernism and the Women's Question Polygamy
- Chiragh Ali The Status of Women in Islam
- Amir Ali The Rights of Women
- Sayyid Ahmad Khan The Liberation of Women
- Qasim Amin Style of Living The Way of Life
- Sayyid Ahmad Khan The Way to Eat a Meal
- Sayyid Ahmad Khan Civil Rights
- Rifa al-Tahtawi PART TWO: ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM Jurisprudence, Bases of Law, and Rational Sciences Islam as the Basis for Knowledge
- Sayyid Qutb Fallacy of Rationalism
- Maududi Islam and Politics War and Peace: Jihad
- Sayyid Qutb The Nature of an Islamic State
- Ayatollah Khomeini The Necessity of Islamic Government
- Ayatollah Khomeini The Constitution of the Islamic Republic
- Islamic Republic of Iran The Political Theory of Islam
- Maududi The Program of FIS
- Islamic Salvation Front of Algeria Boycotting the 1997 Election in Jordan
- Muslim Brotherhood Islamic Action Front Party
- Interview with Dr. Ishaq A. Farhan Islam and Western Civilization Critical Attitudes about the West and the Idea of Western Decadence
- Ali Shari'ati Suicide of Western Civilization
- Maududi Granting Capitulatory Rights to the U.S.
- Ayatollah Khomeini Islam and Its Adversaries
- Abd al-Latif Sultani Westernization of Muslim Societies
- Al-i Ahmad Women and the Hijab A Moralizing Fundamentalism
- Abd al-Latif Sultani On the Islamic Hijab
- Motahhari, Islamic Bibliography Index of the Articles
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