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Title Modernist Islam, 1840-1940 : a sourcebook / edited by Charles Kurzman
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 389 pages) : illustrations
Series OUP E-Books
Contents By Region; Introduction; Section 1. Africa; Section 2. Iran/Afghanistan; Section 3. Ottoman Empire; Section 4. Russian Empire; Section 5. South Asia; Section 6. Southeast/East Asia; Glossary; Index of Qur'anic Citations; Index of Personal Names
Summary 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 s
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Islamic renewal -- History -- 19th century
Islamic renewal -- History -- 20th century
RELIGION -- Islam -- History.
Intellectual life
Islamic renewal
Anthologie
Islam
Modernismus
Quelle
Islam.
Modernisme (cultuur)
SUBJECT Islamic countries -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Islamic countries -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Subject Islamic countries
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Kurzman, Charles.
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