Modernist Islam, 1840-1940 A Sourcebook

by Kurzman, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780195154672
• ISBN10: 0195154673
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Modernist Islam was a major intellectual current in the Muslim world during the 19th and 20th centuries. Proponents of this movement typically believed that it was not only possible but imperative to show how "modern" values and institutions could be reconciled with authentically Islamicideals. This sourcebook brings together a broad range of writings on modernist Islam from across the Muslim world. It makes available for the first time in English the writings of many of the activists and intellectuals who made up the early modernist Islamic movement. Charles Kurzman and a team ofsection editors, each specializing in a different region of the Islamic world, have assembled, translated, and annotated the work of the most important of these figures. With the publication of this volume, an English-speaking audience will have wider access to the literature of modernist Islam thandid the makers of the movement themselves.

Table of Contents

Introduction	3	(28)
Section 1. Africa
Egypt, 1801--1873	31	(9)
Rifa`a Rafi`al-Tahtawi
Tunisia, 1822--1890	40	(10)
Khayr al-Din
Egypt, 1849--1905	50	(11)
Muhammad `Abduh
Egypt, 1863--1908	61	(9)
Qasim Amin
Egypt, 1886--1918	70	(7)
Bahithat al-Badiya
Lebanon-Egypt, 1865--1935	77	(9)
Muhammad Rashid Rida
Kenya, 1890--1947	86	(4)
Shaykh al-Amin bin `Ali al-Mazrui
South Africa, 1870--1940	90	(3)
Abdullah Abdurahman
Algeria, 1889--1940	93	(3)
`Abd al-Hamid Ibn Badis
Sudan, 1908--1976	96	(7)
Muhammad Ahmad Mahjub
Section 2. Iran/Afghanistan
Iran, 1838--1897	103	(8)
Sayyid Jamal al-Din al-Afghani
Iran, 1833--1908	111	(5)
Mirza Malkum Khan
Iran, 1860--1936	116	(10)
Muhammad Husayn Na`ini
Afghanistan, 1865--1933	126	(7)
Mahmud Tarzi
Section 3. Ottoman Empire
Algeria-Syria, circa 1807--1883	133	(5)
`Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri
Turkey, 1839--1878	138	(6)
Ali Suavi
Turkey, 1840--1888	144	(5)
Namik Kemal
Albania-Turkey, 1850--1904	149	(3)
Semseddin Sami Frasheri
Syria, 1854--1902	152	(6)
`Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi
Iraq, 1857--1924	158	(14)
Mahmud Shukri al-Alusi
Turkey, 1869--1932	172	(3)
Abdullah Cevdet
Turkey, 1858--1920	175	(6)
Musa Kazim
Syria, 1866--1914	181	(7)
Jamal al-Din al-Qasimi
Turkey, 1864--1923	188	(4)
Mansurizade Sa'id
Turkey, 1876--1924	192	(6)
Ziya Gokalp
Bosnia, 1870--1938	198	(9)
Dzemaluddin Causevic
Lebanon, 1867--1956	207	(8)
`Abd al-Qadir al-Maghribi
Turkey, 1882--1964	215	(8)
Halide Edib Adivar
Section 4. Russian Empire
Crimea, 1851--1914	223	(4)
Ismail Bey Gasprinskii
Turkistan-Uzbekistan, 1878--1931	227	(2)
Munawwar Qari
Azerbaijan, 1869--1939	229	(3)
Ahmed Aghayev
Tatarstan, 1871--1922	232	(6)
Abdullah Bubi
Tatarstan, 1858--1936	238	(6)
Rizaeddin bin Fakhreddin
Bukhara-Uzbekistan, 1886--1938	244	(10)
Abdurrauf Fitrat
Tatarstan, 1875--1949	254	(3)
Musa Jarullah Bigi
Turkistan-Uzbekistan, 1874--1919	257	(7)
Mahmud Khoja Behbudiy
Turkistan-Uzbekistan, 1893--1938	264	(9)
Abdulhamid Sulayman Cholpan
Section 5. South Asia
North India, 1837--1914	273	(4)
Khwaja Altaf Hussein Hali
North India, 1844--1895	277	(14)
Chiragh `Ali
North India, 1817--1898	291	(13)
Sayyid Ahmad Khan
North India, 1877--1938	304	(10)
Muhammad Iqbal
Malabar, 1873--1932	314	(2)
Muhammad Abdul Khader Maulavi
Bengal, 1849--1928	316	(9)
Ameer `Ali
Bengal-India, 1888--1958	325	(9)
Abu'l-Kalam Azad
Bengal-Pakistan, 1868--1968	334	(5)
Muhammad Akram Khan
Section 6. Southeast/East Asia
Singapore, 1906--1908	339	(5)
Al-Imam newspaper
Java, 1868--1923	344	(5)
Achmad Dachlan
Sudan-Java, 1872--1943	349	(6)
Syekh Ahmad Surkati
Sumatra-Java, 1884--1954	355	(5)
Hadji Agus Salim
Singapore-Indonesia, 1888--1958	360	(5)
Ahmad Hassan
Java, 1871--1947	365	(3)
Muhammad Hasyim Asy'ari
China, 1879--1949	368	(9)
Ya`qub Wang Jingzhai
Glossary	377	(2)
Index of Qur'anic Citations	379	(2)
Index of Personal Names	381