The Ulama in Contemporary Islam
Subtitle: Custodians of Change (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: February 5, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780691130705
Subjects: Islam; Islamic Studies; Religious & spiritual leaders; Religion; Religion - World Religions; Islamic countries; Islam - General; Anthropology; Political Science and International Relations; Religion / Islam
First sentence: MODERN SCHOLARSHIP has often viewed the premodern Islamic legal tradition as a highly rigid structure, defined in opposition to the social and political institutions of society, and resistant to change once its fundamental principles and doctrines had been articulated in the first centuries of Islam.