This book is principally a study of the complex relationship of
religion to modernity. Monica M. Ringer argues that modernity
should be understood as the consequence, not the cause, of the new
intellectual landscape of the 19th century. Using the lens of
Islamic modernism she uncovers the underlying epistemology and
methodology of historicism that penetrated the Middle East and
South Asia in this period, both forcing and enabling a
recalibration of the definition, nature, function and place of
religion. She shows that Muslim Modernists, like their counterparts
in other religious traditions, engaged in a sophisticated project
of theological reform designed to marry their twin commitments to
religion and to modernity. They were in conversation not only with
European scholarship and Catholic modernism, but more importantly,
with their own complex Islamic traditions.
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