Reclaiming Islamic Tradition : : Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage /

Reclaiming Islamic Tradition : : Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage / / Elisabeth Kendall, Ahmad Khan.

Explores how the classical Islamic tradition has been retrieved, reformed and reshaped in the modern Islamic worldRecent events in the Islamic world have demonstrated the endurance, neglect and careful reshaping of the classical Islamic heritage. A range of modern Islamic movements and intellectuals...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
VerfasserIn:
Kendall, Elisabeth,
Khan, Ahmad,
MitwirkendeR:
Bauer, Karen,
Brown, Jonathan A. C.,
Gleave, Robert,
Hillenbrand, Carole,
Hoover, Jon,
Kendall, Elisabeth,
Khan, Ahmad,
Lange, Christian,
Melchert, Christopher,
Sinai, Nicolai,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2016
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 3 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • About the Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1 Modern Shiʿite Legal Theory and the Classical Tradition
  • 2 Muªammad Nā,īr al-Dīn al-Albānī and Traditional Hadith Criticism
  • 3 Islamic Tradition in an Age of Print: Editing, Printing and Publishing the Classical Heritage
  • 4 Reaching into the Obscure Past: The Islamic Legal Heritage and Reform in the Modern Period
  • 5 Reading Sūrat al-Anʿām with Mu`ammad Rashīd Riḑā and Sayyid Quṭb
  • 6 Contemporary Iranian Interpretations of the Qurʾan and Tradition on Women's Testimony
  • 7 Ibn Taymiyya between Moderation and Radicalism
  • 8 The Impact of a Sixteenth-Century Jihad Treatise on Colonial and Modern India
  • 9 Jihadist Propaganda and its Exploitation of the Arab Poetic Tradition
  • 10 Contemporary Salafi Literature on Paradise and Hell: The Case of ʿUmar Sulaymān al-Ashqar
  • Index

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