Islam and Modernism
Subtitle: A Study of the Modern Reform Movement Inaugurated by Muhammad Abduh
Publisher: Islamic Book Trust
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9789675062452
Description: Journalist, agitator, lecturer, teacher, reformer ? Muhammad ?Abduh's many contributions to modern Muslim history as the leading reformist of the al-Azhar circle sometimes earned him the title of the father of ?Islamic Modernism'. This intellectual biography by Charles Adams, a sympathetic American academic, examine Islamic reformism in Egypt through the work of ?Abduh (1849?1905), revealing the influences that moulded his thought and tracing his transformation from someone who was ?buried in mystic visions? to a leading champion of Islamic reform.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: 1. Al-Sayyid Jamāl al-Dīn al Afghānī; title: 2. Muḥammad ‘Abduh: Biography 1849-77: Preparation; title: 3. Muḥammad ‘Abduh: Biography (continued) 1877-88: Beginnings of Public Life; title: 4 Muḥammad ‘Abduh: Biography (continued) 1888-1905: Culmination of Career; title: 5 Muḥammad ‘Abduh: Doctrines Principles and Tendencies; title: 6 Muḥammad ‘Abduh: Doctrines (continued) Attitude Regarding Reason and Science; title: 7 Muḥammad ‘Abduh: Doctrines (continued) Exposition of Doctrines; title: 8 Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā and Al-Manār; title: 9 The ‘Manār’ Party; title: 10 The Younger Egyptian Modernists; title: Bibliography; title: Index