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Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition: Reform, Rationality, and Modernity

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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 ...

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Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition: Reform, Rationality, and Modernity 2011, Stanford University Press, Palo Alto

ISBN-13: 9780804778602

Trade paperback

Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition: Reform, Rationality, and Modernity 2008, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA

ISBN-13: 9780804752503

Hardcover