Modern Islamic Authority and Social Change, Volume 2 Evolving Debates in the West

Name: Modern Islamic Authority and Social Change, Volume 2 Evolving Debates in the West
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ISBN: 9781474433266

ISBN-10: 147443326X

ISBN-13: 9781474433266

Edition: 2018

Authors: Masooda Bano

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At the turn of the twenty-first century, scholarship and policy debate on Islam and Muslim societies has come to focus primarily on Islam's ability to make young Muslims gravitate towards anti-modernity movements. Many attribute Islamic militancy, as well as the general socio-economic and political stagnation experienced in some Muslim societies, to Islamic theological or legal dictates. Yet Islamic scholarly tradition is highly pluralistic, and today's leading Islamic authority structures are developing competing conceptual and methodological approaches which vary greatly in their ability to engage with societal change. This volume covers the new Islamic authority centres emerging in the…

Book details

Copyright year: 2018
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 3/16/2018
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 9.20" wide x 6.30" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Masooda Bano is a Research Fellow, Oxford Department of International Development and Wolfson College, University of Oxford.