Modernist Islam, 1840-1940 A Sourcebook

by Kurzman, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780195154689
• ISBN10: 0195154681
• Format: Paperback
• 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.

Author Biography

Charles Kurzman is Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and editor of Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook (OUP, 1998).

Table of Contents

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