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Islamic modernism and the re-enchantment of the sacred in the age of history / Monica M. Ringer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474478762
  • 147447876X
  • 9781474478755
  • 1474478751
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 297.2/7 23
LOC classification:
  • BP163 .R56 2020eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction: Historicism, modernity and religion -- Locating Islam -- Islam in history, Islamic history -- The Islamic origins of modernity -- The quest for the historical prophet -- Conclusion: God's intent - the re-enchantment of the sacred in the age of history.
Summary: This book studies the complex relationship of religion to modernity and argues that modernity should be understood as the consequence, not the cause, of the new intellectual landscape of the 19th century. Shows how the adoption of historicism in the 19th century engendered Islamic modernism as a theological reform movement.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Historicism, modernity and religion -- Locating Islam -- Islam in history, Islamic history -- The Islamic origins of modernity -- The quest for the historical prophet -- Conclusion: God's intent - the re-enchantment of the sacred in the age of history.

This book studies the complex relationship of religion to modernity and argues that modernity should be understood as the consequence, not the cause, of the new intellectual landscape of the 19th century. Shows how the adoption of historicism in the 19th century engendered Islamic modernism as a theological reform movement.