Author: Andrew HammondPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009199501
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Offers an innovative reappraisal of the impact of Late Ottoman Turkish scholars on modern Islamic thought.
Late Ottoman Origins of Modern Islamic Thought
Author: Andrew HammondPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009199501
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Offers an innovative reappraisal of the impact of Late Ottoman Turkish scholars on modern Islamic thought.
Late Ottoman Origins of Modern Islamic Thought
Author: Andrew HammondPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009199552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
In this major contribution to Muslim intellectual history, Andrew Hammond offers a vital reappraisal of the role of Late Ottoman Turkish scholars in shaping modern Islamic thought. Focusing on a poet, a sheikh and his deputy, Hammond re-evaluates the lives and legacies of three key figures who chose exile in Egypt as radical secular forces seized power in republican Turkey: Mehmed Akif, Mustafa Sabri and Zahid Kevseri. Examining a period when these scholars faced the dual challenge of non-conformist trends in Islam and Western science and philosophy, Hammond argues that these men, alongside Said Nursi who remained in Turkey, were the last bearers of the Ottoman Islamic tradition. Utilising both Arabic and Turkish sources, he transcends disciplinary conventions that divide histories along ethnic, linguistic and national lines, highlighting continuities across geographies and eras. Through this lens, Hammond is able to observe the long-neglected but lasting impact that these Late Ottoman thinkers had upon Turkish and Arab Islamist ideology.
Islamic Intellectual History in the Seventeenth Century
Author: Khaled El-RouayhebPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107042968
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
This book investigates the intellectual currents among Ottoman and North African scholars of the early modern period.
Islamist Thinkers in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic
Author: Ahmet ŞeyhunPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004282408
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Islamist Thinkers in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic offers a comprehensive overview of the lives and ideas of thirteen influential Islamist thinkers. It makes available in English important primary sources to scholars and students with no access to these materials in their original languages.
Islamic Thought in the Twentieth Century
Author: Suha Taji-FaroukiPublisher: I.B. Tauris
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This book provides in-depth discussions of Islamic thought across the twentieth century, encompassing the breadth of self-expression in Muslim communities world-wide. It explores key themes in modern Islamic thinking, including the social origins and ideological underpinnings of the late nineteenth- early twentieth-century Islamic reformist project, nationalism in the Muslim world, Islamist attitudes towards democracy, the science of Islamic economics, Islamist notions of family and the role of women, Muslim perceptions and constructions of the West, and aspects of Muslim thinking on Christians and Jews. - Publisher.
A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire
Author: M. Şükrü HanioğluPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691146179
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
At the turn of the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the millions of people living within its borders. This text provides a concise history of the late empire between 1789 and 1918, turbulent years marked by incredible social change.
The First of the Modern Ottomans
Author: Ethan L. MenchingerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108190944
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 585
Book Description
The eighteenth century brought a period of tumultuous change to the Ottoman Empire. While the Empire sought modernization through military and administrative reform, it also lost much of its influence on the European stage through war and revolt. In this book, Ethan L. Menchinger sheds light on intellectual life, politics, and reform in the Empire through the study of one of its leading intellectuals and statesmen, Ahmed Vâsıf. Vâsıf's life reveals new aspects of Ottoman letters - heated debates over moral renewal, war and peace, justice, and free will - but it also forces the reappraisal of Ottoman political reform, showing a vital response that was deeply enmeshed in Islamic philosophy, ethics, and statecraft. Tracing Vâsıf's role through the turn of the nineteenth century, this book opens the debate on modernity and intellectualism for those students and researchers studying the Ottoman Empire, intellectual history, the Enlightenment, and Napoleonic Europe.
The Qur'an between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic
Author: Susan GunastiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429810024
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The Qur’an between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic is one of the few book-length studies on an Ottoman Qur’an commentary. Its premise is that "the Ottoman Empire" did not come to an end until 1950 so far as Islam was concerned in Turkey. The work explores the relationship between Elmalılı’s Qur’an commentary and the intellectual trends of the period, including the impact of materialism, the sciences, notions of civilizational progress, and philosophy. In doing so, this study emphasizes the "local" aspect of the Qur’an commentary, through a sustained focus on the Istanbul context in which it was written. This work demonstrates that Elmalılı’s Qur’an commentary is a product of and reaction to the religious, intellectual, political, and social trends of the period. This work, in considering all the factors that led to the commissioning of Elmalılı’s Qur’an commentary, also contributes to our understanding of the history of Islam in early to mid-twentieth-century Turkey. This intellectual history of modern Islamic thought contributes to our understanding of the genre of Qur’an commentary in the early twentieth century. It is a key text for students and scholars interested in Islam in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, modern Islamic thought, and the Middle East.
Islamic Reform
Author: David Dean ComminsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195362942
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Religious community and nation have long been the chief poles of political and cultural identity for peoples of the modern Middle East. This work explores how men in turn-of-the-century Damascus dealt, in word and deed, with the dilemmas of identity that arose from the Ottoman Empire's 19th-century reforms. Muslim religious scholars (ulama) who advocated a return to scripture as the basis of social and political order were the pivotal group. The reformers clashed with their fellow ulama who defended the integrity of prevailing religious practices and beliefs. In addition to two conflicting interpretations of Islam, Arabism comprised a new strand of thought represented by young men with secular educations advancing Arab interests in the Ottoman Empire. Religious reformers and Arabists shared a political agenda that shifted focus from constitutionalism before 1908 to administrative decentralization shortly thereafter. Using unpublished manuscripts and correspondence, inheritance documents, and Ottoman-era periodicals, this work weaves together social, political, and intellectual aspects of a local history that represents an instance of a fundamental issue in modern history.
Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age
Author: Muhammad Qasim ZamanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139577182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
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.