Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition - Reform, Rationality, and Modernity

Informationen zum Autor Samira Haj is Professor of History at the City University of New York: The Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island. Klappentext Samira Haj conceptualizes Islam through a close reading of the writings of Muhammad ibn 'Abdul Wahhab (1703-87) and Muhammad 'Abduh (1849-1905)--each of whom is representative of a distinct trend, chronologically as well as philosophically, in the constitution of modern Islam. Zusammenfassung Samira Haj conceptualizes Islam through a close reading of the writings of Muhammad ibn 'Abdul Wahhab (1703-87) and Muhammad 'Abduh (1849-1905)—each of whom is representative of a distinct trend, chronologically as well as philosophically, in the constitution of modern Islam.

Product details

• Authors: Samira Haj, HAJ SAMIRA
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.10.2008
• EAN: 9780804752503
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5250-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions