Hamka and Islam - Cosmopolitan Reform in the Malay World

Khairudin Aljunied is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore. He was Malaysia Chair of Islam in Southeast Asia (2017¿2018) and is Senior Fellow at the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University.

Summary

Since the early twentieth century, Muslim reformers have been campaigning for a total transformation of the ways in which Islam is imagined in the Malay world. One of the most influential is the author Haji Abdul Malik bin Abdul Karim Amrullah, commonly known as Hamka.In Hamka and Islam, Khairudin Aljunied employs the term "cosmopolitan reform"...

Product details

• Authors: Khairudin Aljunied
• Publisher: Cornell univ.southeast asia
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781501724572
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-2457-2
• No. of pages: 164
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies