Electronic: 978-0-226-29041-6
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226290416.001.0001
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Based on a series of lectures delivered at the University of Chicago 1945, Modern Trends in Islam analyzes the evolving religious beliefs of practicing Muslims during the author’s own time. It was one of the first texts in English to treat Islam not as an unchanging set of beliefs and practices but as a dynamic religion whose meaning is continually redefined by its adherents. In six chapters, this concise book covers Islam’s confrontation with Western Modernism in the first half of the twentieth century in realms of law, society, and religious thought. In doing so, these essays anticipate many of the tensions between progressivism and fundamentalism that have characterized Islamic life, thought, and politics over the last seventy years.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Title
Dedication
Foreword
I. The Foundations of Islamic Thought
II. The Religious Tension in Islam
III. The Principles of Modernism
IV. Modernist Religion
V. Law and Society
VI. Islam in the World
Notes and References
Index