What does it mean to be modern? This study regards the concept of 'society' as foundational to modern self-understanding. Identifying Arabic conceptualizations of society in the journal al-Manar, the mouthpiece of Islamic reformism, the author shows how modernity was articulated from within an Islamic discursive tradition. The fact that the classical term umma was a principal term used to conceptualize modern society suggests the convergence of discursive traditions in modernity, rather than a mere diffusion of European concepts.
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Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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19
1 s/w Abbildung, 19 s/w Tabellen
1 b/w ill., 19 b/w tbl.
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ISBN-13
978-3-11-054486-2 (9783110544862)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Florian Zemmin, Universität Bern, Schweiz.
