Guardians of faith in modern times : ulama in the Middle East / edited by Meir Hatina.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hatina, Meir.

Series:

Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia ; v. 105.

Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia, 1385-3376 ; v. 105

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ulama.

Islam--History.

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collective volume provides an integrative historical and contemporary discussion of Sunni ʿulamaʾ in the Middle East in both an urban and a semi-tribal context. The various chapters reinforce a renewed interest in the position of the ʿulamaʾ in modern times and offer new insights as to their ideological vitality and contribution to the public discourse on moral and sociopolitical issues.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Meir Hatina

Introduction / Meir Hatina

Chapter One. ʿUlamaʾ between the state and the society in pre-modern Sunni Islam / Michael Winter

Chapter Two. Al-Jabarti’s attitude towards the ʿUlamaʾ of his time / Shmuel Moreh

Chapter Three. ʿUlamaʾ and political activism in the late Ottoman Empire: The political career of Şeyhülislâm Mustafa Sabri Efendi (1869-1954) / Amit Bein

Chapter Four. Italian colonial rule and muslim elites in Libya: A relationship of antagonism and collaboration / Anna Baldinetti

Chapter Five. Education, politics, and the struggle for intellectual leadership: Al-Azhar between 1927 and 1945 / Rainer Brunner

Chapter Six. The iraqi afghanis and ʿAbduhs: Debate over reform among ShiʿIte and Sunni ʿUlamaʾ in interwar Iraq / Orit Bashkin

Chapter Seven. Western scholars on the role of the ʿUlamaʾ in adapting the ShariʿA to modernity: A critical review / Ron Shaham

Chapter Eight. ʿUlamaʾ, tribalism and the national struggle in Morocco, 1944-1956 / Daniel Zisenwine

Chapter Nine. Reconciling tribalism and Islam in the writings of contemporary ʿUlamaʾ in saudi Arabia / Meir Hatina

Chapter Ten. Wahhabis, Sufis and Salafis in early twentieth century Damascus / David Commins

Chapter Eleven. The clerics’ betrayal? Islamists, ʿUlamaʾ and the polity / Meir Hatina

Chapter Twelve. Liberal critics, ʿUlamaʾ and the debate on Islam in the contemporary arab world / Muhammad Abu Samra

Chapter Thirteen. In defense of Muhammad: ʿUlamaʾ, DaʿIya and the new islamic internationalism / Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen

List of contributors / Meir Hatina

Bibliography / Meir Hatina

Index / Meir Hatina.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-333) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-39959-4

9786612399596

90-474-4293-8

OCLC:

567763241

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004169531.i-342 DOI