Modernist and fundamentalist debates in Islam : a reader

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Modernist and fundamentalist debates in Islam : a reader

edited by Mansoor Moaddel and Kamran Talattof

Palgrave Macmillan, c2002

1st Palgrave Macmillan ed

  • pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-376) and index

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ISBN 9780312215804

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Also available in paperback as "Modernist and Fundamentalist Debates in Islam"During the second half of the nineteenth 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 nineteenth 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. The editors have selected the most prominent Islamic thinkers of modernist and fundamentalist viewpoints, diverse nationalities, and from both the late decades of the nineteenth 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.
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pbk. ISBN 9781403960924

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With resurgent interest in the Muslim world and in particular political Islam, this collection of translated essays by major Muslim thinkers from the Middle East and South Asia demonstrates the ongoing and contentious debate between modernizers seeking to adapt Western ways and fundamentalists who rejected them. From Jamal al-Din al-Afghani in the nineteenth-century to Ayatollah Khomeini in the twentieth, the selections provide an opportunity to examine a diversity of Muslim thinkers thoughts on important topics like jurisprudence, politics, relations with the west, and women in their own words.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction PART ONE: ISLAMIC MODERNISMS Jurisprudence, Rational Sciences, and Differentiation of Knowledge Religion Versus Science
  • S.Jamal al-Din Al-Afghani Islamic Revealed Law Versus Islamic Common Law
  • C.Ali The Rationalistic and Philosophical Spirit of Islam
  • A.Ali The Sociological Laws of the Quran
  • M.Abduh Scientific Reform of Religious Studies
  • M.Abduh Methodology of Historical Writing
  • S.Nu'mani Islam and Politics War and Peace: Popular Jihad
  • C.Ali The Problem of Caliphate
  • A.Abd al-Raziq Authority of the Problem of Succession
  • A.Ali Intellectual Pluralism and Freedom of Opinion
  • S.A.Khan Islam and Western Civilization Modernist Economic and Social Project
  • Aligarh Institute Gazette Islam and Civilization
  • M.F.Wajdi Islamic Modernism and the Women's Question Polygamy
  • C.Ali The Rights of Women, S.A.Khan The Liberation of Women
  • Q.Amin Style of Living The Way of Life
  • S.A.Khan The Way to Eat a Meal
  • S.A.Khan Civil Rights
  • R.al-Tahtawi PART TWO: ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM Jurisprudence, Bases of Law, and Rational Sciences Islam as the Basis for Knowledge
  • S.Qutb Fallacy of Rationalism, S.Abul A'la Maududi Islam and Politics War and Peace: Jihad
  • S.Qutb The Nature of an Islamic State
  • A.Khomeini The Necessity of Islamic Government
  • A.Khomeini The Political Theory of Islam
  • S.Abul A'la 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
  • A.Shari'ati Suicide of Western Civilization
  • S.Abul A'la Maududi Granting Capitulatory Rights to the U.S
  • A.Khomeini Islam and It's Adversaries
  • A.al-Latif Sultani Plagued by the West
  • J.Al-I Ahmad Women and the Hijab A Moralizing Fundamentalism
  • A.al-Latif Sultani On the Islamic Hijab
  • M.Motahhari Bibliography Index of the Articles

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