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Islamic Reform - Politics and Social Change in Late Ottoman Syria (Hardcover)
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Islamic Reform - Politics and Social Change in Late Ottoman Syria (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Middle Eastern History
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Religious community and nation have long been the chief poles of
political and cultural identity for peoples of the modern Middle
East. This work explores how men in turn-of-the-century Damascus
dealt, in word and deed, with the dilemmas of identity that arose
from the Ottoman Empire's 19th-century reforms. Muslim religious
scholars (ulama) who advocated a return to scripture as the basis
of social and political order were the pivotal group. The reformers
clashed with their fellow ulama who defended the integrity of
prevailing religious practices and beliefs. In addition to two
conflicting interpretations of Islam, Arabism comprised a new
strand of thought represented by young men with secular educations
advancing Arab interests in the Ottoman Empire. Religious reformers
and Arabists shared a political agenda that shifted focus from
constitutionalism before 1908 to administrative decentralization
shortly thereafter. Using unpublished manuscripts and
correspondence, inheritance documents, and Ottoman-era periodicals,
this work weaves together social, political, and intellectual
aspects of a local history that represents an instance of a
fundamental issue in modern history.
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