TY  - BOOK
AU  - Haj,Samira
TI  - Reconfiguring Islamic tradition: reform, rationality, and modernity 
T2  - Cultural memory in the present
SN  - 9780804769754
AV  - BP166.14.M63 H33 2009eb
U1  - 297.8 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Stanford, Calif.
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb,
KW  - Muḥammad ʻAbduh,
KW  - Muḥammad Ibn-ʻAbd-al-Wahhāb.
KW  - ʻAbduh, Muḥammad.
KW  - Islamic modernism
KW  - Islamic renewal
KW  - Faith and reason
KW  - Islam
KW  - Islamic philosophy
KW  - History
KW  - Modernisme islamique
KW  - Renouveau islamique
KW  - Islam et raison
KW  - Philosophie islamique
KW  - Histoire
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - gnd
KW  - Reform
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The Islamic reform tradition -- Rethinking Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab -- Islamic reconfiguration of colonial modernity -- Governable Muslim subjects -- Love and marriage -- Conclusion
N2  - "Samira Raj conceptualizes Islam through a close reading of two Muslim reformers - Muhammad ibn 'Abdul Wahhah (1703-1787) and Muhammad 'Abduh (1849-1905) - each representative of a distinct trend, chronological as well as philosophical, in modern Islam. Their works are examined primarily through the prism of two conceptual questions: the idea of the modern and the formation of a Muslim subject. Approaching Islam through the works of these two Muslims, the author illuminates aspects of Islamic modernity that have been obscured and problematizes assumptions founded on the oppositional dichotomies of modern/traditional, secular/sacred, and liberal/fundamentalist. The book explores the notions of the community-society and the subject's location within it to demonstrate how Muslims in different historical contexts responded differently to theological and practical questions. This knowledge will help us better understand the conflicts currently unfolding in parts of the Arab world"--Jacket
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