Max Weber and Islam

This is a major effort by Islamic studies specialists to reexamine and appraise Max Weber's perspectives on Islam and its historical development. It explores many dimensions of Weber's comments on Islam, along with Weber's conceptual framework.

List of contents

Introduction, 1. Hindrances to Modernity: Max Weber on Islam, 2. The Institutionalization of Early Islamic Societies, 3. Aspects of Islamization: Weber’s Observations on Islam Reconsidered, 4. Islamization in Late Medieval Bengal:The Relevance of Max Weber, 5. Max Weber and the Patrimonial Empire in Islam: The Mughal, 6. Paradise or Hell? The Religious Doctrine of Election in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Islamic Fundamentalism and Protestant Calvinism, 7. Weber and Islamic Reform, 8. Secularization, Weber, and Islam, 9. Weber, Islamic Law, and the Rise of Capitalism, 10. Weber and Islamic Sects, 11. Weber’s Analysis of Islam and the Specific Pattern of Islamic Civilization.

About the author

Wolfgang Schluchter

Summary

Max Weber and Islam is a major effort by Islamic-studies specialists to reexamine and appraise Max Weber's perspectives on Islam and its historical development

Product details

• Authors: Toby E. Schluchter Huff, Wolfgang Schluchter, Schluchter Wolfgang
• Assisted by: Toby Huff (Editor), Toby E. Huff (Editor), Wolfgang Schluchter (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.1999
• EAN: 9781560004004
• ISBN: 978-1-56000-400-4
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Islam, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Islam / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, Islamic Studies, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities