Late Ottoman origins of modern Islamic thought : Turkish and Egyptian thinkers on the disruption of Islamic knowledge / Andrew Hammond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hammond, Andrew, 1970- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.

Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mehmet Âkif, 1873-1936.

Mehmet Âkif.

Ṣabrī, Muṣṭafá, 1869-1954.

Ṣabrī, Muṣṭafá.

Kawtharī, Muḥammad Zāhid ibn al-Ḥasan.

Islam--Turkey--19th century.

Islam.

Islam--Egypt--19th century.

Muslim scholars--19th century--Bio-bibliography.

Muslim scholars.

Muslim scholars--20th century--Bio-bibliography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 317 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

In this major contribution to Muslim intellectual history, Andrew Hammond offers a vital reappraisal of the role of Late Ottoman Turkish scholars in shaping modern Islamic thought. Focusing on a poet, a sheikh and his deputy, Hammond re-evaluates the lives and legacies of three key figures who chose exile in Egypt as radical secular forces seized power in republican Turkey: Mehmed Akif, Mustafa Sabri and Zahid Kevseri. Examining a period when these scholars faced the dual challenge of non-conformist trends in Islam and Western science and philosophy, Hammond argues that these men, alongside Said Nursi who remained in Turkey, were the last bearers of the Ottoman Islamic tradition. Utilising both Arabic and Turkish sources, he transcends disciplinary conventions that divide histories along ethnic, linguistic and national lines, highlighting continuities across geographies and eras. Through this lens, Hammond is able to observe the long-neglected but lasting impact that these Late Ottoman thinkers had upon Turkish and Arab Islamist ideology.

Contents:

1. The Late Ottoman intellectual tradition: A historiographical review

2. Ottoman exiles: From Constantinople to Cairo

3. Ottoman scholars and their reception of Muḥammad ʻAbduh

4. The Salafi revolution: Kevseri's defence of Sunni traditionalism

5. Nation state, Islamic state: The Egypt exiles and new political imaginaries

6. The Late Ottomans' impact on modern Islamic thought

Appendices: 1. Sabri's letter to the Vatican, 1925

2. Chronological list of Kevseri's articles

3. Ottoman letter written by Kevseri, 1952

4. Ottoman letter written by Akif, 1932

Bibliography.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 03 Nov 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-009-19955-2

1-009-19951-X

1-009-19954-4