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Islam and Modernity (Paperback, New edition)
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Islam and Modernity (Paperback, New edition)
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"As Professor Fazlur Rahman shows in the latest of a series of
important contributions to Islamic intellectual history, the
characteristic problems of the Muslim modernists--the adaptation to
the needs of the contemporary situation of a holy book which draws
its specific examples from the conditions of the seventh century
and earlier--are by no means new. . . . In Professor Rahman's view
the intellectual and therefore the social development of Islam has
been impeded and distorted by two interrelated errors. The first
was committed by those who, in reading the Koran, failed to
recognize the differences between general principles and specific
responses to 'concrete and particular historical situations.' . . .
This very rigidity gave rise to the second major error, that of the
secularists. By teaching and interpreting the Koran in such a way
as to admit of no change or development, the dogmatists had created
a situation in which Muslim societies, faced with the imperative
need to educate their people for life in the modern world, were
forced to make a painful and self-defeating choice--either to
abandon Koranic Islam, or to turn their backs on the modern
world."--Bernard Lewis, "New York Review of Books"
"In this work, Professor Fazlur Rahman presents a positively
ambitious blueprint for the transformation of the intellectual
tradition of Islam: theology, ethics, philosophy and jurisprudence.
Over the voices advocating a return to Islam or the reestablishment
of the Sharia, the guide for action, he astutely and soberly asks:
What and which Islam? More importantly, how does one get to
'normative' Islam? The author counsels, and passionately
demonstrates, that for Islam to be actually what Muslims claim it
to be--comprehensive in scope and efficacious for every age and
place--Muslim scholars and educationists must reevaluate their
methodology and hermeneutics. In spelling out the necessary and
sound methodology, he is at once courageous, serious and
profound."--Wadi Z. Haddad, "American-Arab Affairs"
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