The Ulama in Contemporary Islam : : Custodians of Change / / Muhammad Qasim Zaman.
From the cleric-led Iranian revolution to the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan, many people have been surprised by what they see as the modern reemergence of an antimodern phenomenon. This book helps account for the increasingly visible public role of traditionally educated Muslim religious schola...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics ;
38 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 3 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. Islamic Law and the 'Ulama in Colonial India: A Legal Tradition in Transition
- II. Constructions of Authority
- III. The Rhetoric of Reform and the Religious Sphere
- IV. Conceptions of the Islamic State
- V. Refashioning Identities
- VI. Religiopolitical Activism and the 'Ulama: Comparative Perspectives
- Epilogue. The 'Ulama in the Twenty-First Century
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index