Title Islam without Europe : traditions of reform in eighteenth-century Islamic thought / Ahmad S. Dallal

Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018] ©2018

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Description 1 online resource Series Islamic civilization and Muslim networks Islamic civilization & Muslim networks. Contents Reimagining the eighteenth century -- The boundaries of faith -- Ijtihād and the regional origins of a universal vision -- Sufism, old and new: the multiple faces of the spirit -- Genealogies of dissent and the politics of knowledge -- Humanizing the sacred -- The limits of the sacred Summary Replete with a cast of giants in Islamic thought and philosophy, Ahmad S. Dallal's pathbreaking intellectual history of the eighteenth-century Muslim world challenges stale views of this period as one of decline, stagnation, and the engendering of a widespread fundamentalism. Far from being moribund, Dallal argues, the eighteenth century--prior to systematic European encounters--was one of the most fertile eras in Islamic thought. Across vast Islamic territories, Dallal charts in rich detail not only how intellectuals rethought and reorganized religious knowledge but also the reception and impact of their ideas. From the banks of the Ganges to the shores of the Atlantic, commoners and elites alike embraced the appeals of Muslim thinkers who, while preserving classical styles of learning, advocated for general participation by Muslims in the definition of Islam. Dallal also uncovers the regional origins of most reform projects, showing how ideologies were forged in particular sociopolitical contexts. Reformists' ventures were in large part successful--up until the beginnings of European colonization of the Muslim world. By the nineteenth century, the encounter with Europe changed Islamic discursive culture in significant ways into one that was largely articulated in reaction to the radical challenges of colonialism Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 24, 2018) Subject Islam -- 18th century RELIGION -- Islam -- General. RELIGION -- Islam -- History. Intellectual life Islam SUBJECT Islamic countries -- Intellectual life Subject Islamic countries Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469640358 146964035X 9781469640365 1469640368

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