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Islamic Reform and Conservatism: Al-Azhar and the Evolution of Modern Sunni Islam Indira Falk Gesink
Islamic Reform and Conservatism: Al-Azhar and the Evolution of Modern Sunni Islam
Indira Falk Gesink
The reform debates at al-Azhar Madrasa in nineteenth-century Cairo - one of the most influential centres of religious study in Sunni Islam - were enormously influential for twentieth-century Islamic thought. This book argues that narratives of these debates overemphasize the roles of modernists like Muhammad 'Abduh, obscuring important themes.
320 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | February 27, 2014 |
| ISBN13 | 9781780764276 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Pages | 320 |
| Dimensions | 217 × 156 × 23 mm · 405 g |
| Language | English |