Religious Authority and Internal Criticism / [electronic resource] Zaman, Muhammad Qasim creator author. text enk 2012 monographic eng

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1 online resource (374 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). Among traditionally educated scholars in the Islamic world there is much disagreement on the crises that afflict modern Muslim societies and how best to deal with them, and the debates have grown more urgent since 9/11. Through an analysis of the work of Muhammad Rashid Rida and Yusuf al-Qaradawi in the Arab Middle East and a number of scholars belonging to the Deobandi orientation in colonial and contemporary South Asia, this book examines some of the most important issues facing the Muslim world since the late nineteenth century. These include the challenges to the binding claims of a long-established scholarly consensus, evolving conceptions of the common good, and discourses on religious education, the legal rights of women, social and economic justice and violence and terrorism. This wide-ranging study by a leading scholar provides the depth and the comparative perspective necessary for an understanding of the ferment that characterizes contemporary Islam. Muhammad Qasim Zaman. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Islamic sociology BP161.3 .Z328 2012 297.09/051 9780511973062 (ebook) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511973062 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511973062 UkCbUP 101006 20180107143415.0 CR9780511973062