Modernity in Islamic Tradition: The Concept of ‘Society’ in the Journal al-Manar (Cairo, 1898–1940) 9783110545845, 9783110543995, 9783110710502

The concept of belief in Islamic theology

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Transformations of Tradition: Islamic Law in Colonial Modernity 0190077042, 9780190077044

Transformations of Tradition probes how the encounter with colonial modernity conditioned Islamic jurists' conceptu

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The Islamic Intellectual Tradition in Persia 9780700703142

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The Islamic syncretistic tradition in Bengal 0691053871

Asim Roy argues that Islam in Bengal was not a corruption of the "real" Middle Eastern Islam, as nineteenth-ce

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Transformations of Tradition: Islamic Law in Colonial Modernity 2020044148, 9780190077044, 9780190077075, 9780190077051, 9780190077068

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Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition: Reform, Rationality, and Modernity 9780804769754

Samira Haj conceptualizes Islam through a close reading of the writings of Muhammad ibn 'Abdul Wahhab (1703-87) and

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The Shi‘i World: Pathways in Tradition and Modernity 9780755609215, 9781784534776

The idea of maslaha has a rich history in classical legal thought and literature. Conventionally translated into English

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Islamic Law and Empire in Ottoman Cairo 9781474403108

A study of Islamic law and political power in the Ottoman Empire’s richest provincial city What did Islamic law mean in

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Recognizing Sufism: Contemplation in the Islamic Tradition 9781350987739, 9780857727831

Sufism is all too often associated just with ‘mysticism’ in the West. The author of this new textbook, a former pupil of

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Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition 9783110776485, 9783110776034

Open Access This volume explores and calls into question certain commonly held assumptions about writing and technolog

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