Modern Islamic thought in a radical age : religious authority and internal criticism / Muhammad Qasim Zaman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zaman, Muhammad Qasim, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--21st century.

Islam.

Islam--Doctrines.

Islamic sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 363 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Among traditionally educated scholars in the Islamic world there is much disagreement on the crises that afflict modern Muslim societies and how best to deal with them, and the debates have grown more urgent since 9/11. Through an analysis of the work of Muhammad Rashid Rida and Yusuf al-Qaradawi in the Arab Middle East and a number of scholars belonging to the Deobandi orientation in colonial and contemporary South Asia, this book examines some of the most important issues facing the Muslim world since the late nineteenth century. These include the challenges to the binding claims of a long-established scholarly consensus, evolving conceptions of the common good, and discourses on religious education, the legal rights of women, social and economic justice and violence and terrorism. This wide-ranging study by a leading scholar provides the depth and the comparative perspective necessary for an understanding of the ferment that characterizes contemporary Islam.

Contents:

Introduction

Rethinking consensus

The language of ijtihad

Contestations on the common God

Bridging traditions: madrasas and their internal critics

Women, law, and society

Socioeconomic justice

Denouncing violence: the ambiguities of a discourse

Epilogue: the paradoxes of internal criticism.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-09045-0

1-139-57980-0

1-107-25506-6

1-139-56942-2

1-139-57298-9

1-139-57123-0

0-511-97306-3

1-283-63773-1

1-139-57032-3

OCLC:

812917685