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Intellectuals in the modern Islamic world

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London; Routledge; 2006Description: 375pISBN:
  • 9780415368353
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 297 INT
Summary: This book reconsiders the typology and history of intellectuals in the Islamic world in the modern and contemporary periods from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic |World distinguishes itself from other major studies on modern thought in Islam by examining this topic beyond the context of the Arabic world. The first section of this book concentrates on a journal,al- Manar, published between 18978 and 1935,and read by a wide range of audience throughout the Islamic world,which inspired the imagination and arguments of local intellectuals in the first half of the tweentieth century.The second part concentrates on the formation,transmission , and transformation of learning and authority, from the Middle East to Central and South Asia, through the twentieth century.
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This book reconsiders the typology and history of intellectuals in the Islamic world in the modern and contemporary periods from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic |World distinguishes itself from other major studies on modern thought in Islam by examining this topic beyond the context of the Arabic world. The first section of this book concentrates on a journal,al- Manar, published between 18978 and 1935,and read by a wide range of audience throughout the Islamic world,which inspired the imagination and arguments of local intellectuals in the first half of the tweentieth century.The second part concentrates on the formation,transmission , and transformation of learning and authority, from the Middle East to Central and South Asia, through the twentieth century.

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