
Islamic Reform and Conservatism
Al-azhar and the Evolution of Modern Sunni Islam
Indira Falk Gesink(Author)
I.B. Tauris (Publisher)
Published on 30. October 2012
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Hardback
320 pages
978-1-84511-936-2 (ISBN)
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Description
The famed reform debates at al-Azhar Madrasa in nineteenth-century Cairo - one of the most influential centres of religious study in Sunni Islam - were enormously influential for twentieth-century Islamic thought. In this book Indira Gesink argues that narratives of these debates overemphasize the roles of famous modernists like Muhammad 'Abduh, obscuring important themes. By restoring conservative voices to the debate, she shows that conservative 'ulama engaged many of the same issues as reformers and led committees that generated and implemented reforms; ultimately, conservative leaders at al-Azhar provided crucial legitimacy for the reforms to become rooted in public life. Drawing on obscure, but important, archival sources to illustrate the important contributions of conservative scholars to the evaluation of twentieth-century Sunni Islam, "Islamic Reform and Conservatism" is indispensable for all those interested in the modern Middle East, religious history, secularism, modernism and religious reform.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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College/higher education
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Height: 216 mm
Width: 134 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84511-936-2 (9781845119362)
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Indira Falk Gesink is Associate Professor of History at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. She received her PhD in History from Washington University in St. Louis in 2000, and lived in Egypt in 1995-1996 and 1998.