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Reforming Modernity is a sweeping intellectual history and philosophical reflection built around the work of the philosopher Abdurrahman Taha. Wael B. Hallaq explores how Taha's philosophical project sheds light on recent intellectual currents in the Islamic world and puts forth a formidable critique of Western and Islamic modernities.
List of contents
Citation Method and Abbreviated Titles
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. “Rethinking the Islamic Tradition”: A Conceptual Framework
2. The Spirit of Modernity
3. Islamic Applications of Modernity’s Spirit
4. Recasting Reason
5. Religion, Secularism, Ethics: A Concept of Critique
6. Sovereignty, Ethical Management, and Trusteeship
Epilogue: A New Concept of the Human
Appendix: Taha Responding
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Wael B. Hallaq is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. His works, which have been translated into a number of languages, include The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity’s Moral Predicament (2013), which won Columbia University Press’s Distinguished Book Award, and Restating Orientalism: A Critique of Modern Knowledge (Columbia, 2018).
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Reforming Modernity is a sweeping intellectual history and philosophical reflection built around the work of the philosopher Abdurrahman Taha. Wael B. Hallaq explores how Taha’s philosophical project sheds light on recent intellectual currents in the Islamic world and puts forth a formidable critique of Western and Islamic modernities.
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