Interpreting Islam - Bandali Jawzi''s Islamic Intellectual History

Zusatztext Professor Sonn has produced a smooth translation. her introduction and commentary! which is a monograph in itself! places Jawzi's work in a contemporary and meaningful perspective. Klappentext In this book! Sonn provides the first English translation of The History of Intellectual Movements in Islam (1928)! a seminal text of Arab modernism written by the Palestinian intellectual Bandali al-Jawzi (1871-1942). In that book! Jawzi offered the first Marxist interpretation of the history and development of Islamic thought. The continuing importance of his work lies in Jawzi's critical method of reevaluating both European "orientalist" and classical Muslim accounts of Islamic history. Fifty years before Edward Said's landmark Orientalism! Jawzi identified the vested imperial interests as the weakness in both methodologies. Sonn's translation brings to life this skillful and entertaining critique of Islamic history. Her introduction places Jawzi's thought in context with both postmodern intellectuals and Muslim reformers who continue the struggle to apply Islamic principles to contemporary life. Zusammenfassung This work presents in English a seminal text of Arab modernism. Jawzi's book "The History of Intellectual Movements in Islam" offered a Marxist interpretation of the development of Islamic thought, arguing that Muslim society in the industrial age must adopt a socialist economic system.

Product details

• Authors: Bandali Jawzi
• Assisted by: Tamara Sonn (Translation), Sonn Tamara (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.1996
• EAN: 9780195100518
• ISBN: 978-0-19-510051-8
• No. of pages: 220
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Islam, RELIGION / Islam / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, Islamic Studies, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities