Modernist and Fundamentalist Debates in Islam: A Reader (2003)
K Talattof
(Editor)
M. Moaddel
(Editor)
Description
With resurgent interest in the Muslim world and in particular political Islam, this collection of translated essays by major Muslim thinkers from the Middle East and South Asia demonstrates the ongoing and contentious debate between modernizers seeking to adapt Western ways and fundamentalists who rejected them. From Jamal al-Din al-Afghani in the nineteenth-century to Ayatollah Khomeini in the twentieth, the selections provide an opportunity to examine a diversity of Muslim thinkers thoughts on important topics like jurisprudence, politics, relations with the west, and women in their own words.
Product Details
Price
$84.99
$79.04
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Publish Date
February 06, 2003
Pages
382
Dimensions
6.16 X 9.12 X 0.98 inches | 1.3 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781403960924
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MANSOOR MOADDEL is a professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology at Eastern Michigan University KAMRAN TALATTOF teaches Persian Language and Literature and Iranian Culture in the Near Eastern Studies Department at the University of Arizona