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Author Zaman, Muhammad Qasim
Title Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age : Religious Authority and Internal Criticism
Imprint New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012
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Note Cover -- MODERN ISLAMIC THOUGHT IN A RADICAL AGE -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration, Spelling, and Other Conventions -- 1 Introduction -- HISTORICAL SETTING AND DRAMATIS PERSONAE -- RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY AND INTERNAL CRITICISM -- THE SCOPE AND STRUCTURE OF THIS BOOK -- PART ONE -- 2 Rethinking Consensus -- REVISITING "THOSE IN AUTHORITY" -- LOCAL, EVOLVING, AND OVERLAPPING CONSENSUS -- OLD CONSENSUS IN A NEW GARB? -- 3 The Language of Ijtihad -- SALAFIS AND DEOBANDI TRADITIONALISTS: AN EARLY ENCOUNTER -- IJTIHAD BETWEEN SOUTH ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST -- IJTIHAD AND THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF AUTHORITY: THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST -- IJTIHAD AND THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF AUTHORITY: SOUTH ASIA -- THE RHETORIC OF IJTIHAD (AND TAQLID) -- 4 Contestations on the Common Good -- MASLAHA IN MEDIEVAL AND MODERN ISLAM -- CONTESTATIONS ON THE COMMON GOOD: ILLUSTRATIONS -- THE PUBLIC SPHERE AND THE COMMON GOOD -- PART TWO -- 5 Bridging Traditions: Madrasas and their Internal Critics -- EDUCATION, POLITICS, AND A NEW ELITE -- BREAKING AND ERECTING BARRIERS -- DEOBANDI DISCONTENT -- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BLAND DICHOTOMIES -- 6 Women, Law, and Society -- DEOBANDI AMBIGUITIES -- The Muftis Agency? -- The Contradictions of the State -- LEGAL GUARDIANS AND COERCED MARRIAGES -- "A CALL TO THE FAIR SEX" -- THE MUSLIM CONVERT AND HER NON-MUSLIM HUSBAND -- THE LIMITS OF CONSENSUS -- 7 Socioeconomic Justice -- ̀UBAYD ALLAH SINDHI: A "QUR'ANIC REVOLUTION" -- ̀ABD AL-RAHIM POPALZAI: PEASANT ACTIVISM -- HIFZ AL-RAHMAN SEOHARWI: "THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM OF ISLAM" -- SOCIOECONOMIC JUSTICE AND THE AMBIGUITIES OF THE ̀ULAMA -- ISLAMIC ECONOMICS -- 8 Denouncing Violence: The Ambiguities of a Discourse -- THE ISLAMIC LEGAL TRADITION AND THE NON-MUSLIM OUTSIDER -- THE INFIDEL WITHIN -- JIHAD AND MORALITY IN A DIVIDED WORLD
ON TERRORISM AND SUICIDE BOMBING -- DEOBANDI DISCOURSES: BEFORE 9/11 -- DEOBANDI DISCOURSES: AFTER 9/11 -- JIHAD, TERRORISM, AND RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY -- 9 Epilogue: The Paradoxes of Internal Criticism -- Bibliography -- ARCHIVES -- PUBLISHED DOCUMENTS -- OTHER PUBLISHED WORKS -- UNPUBLISHED DISSERTATIONS -- NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES CITED -- WEBSITES -- Index
This book explores some of the most fiercely debated issues facing the Islamic world today
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Link Print version: Zaman, Muhammad Qasim Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age : Religious Authority and Internal Criticism New York : Cambridge University Press,c2012 9781107096455
Subject Islam -- 21st century.;Islam -- Doctrines.;Islamic sociology
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