Overcoming Tradition and Modernity: The Search for Islamic Authenticity

ISBN-13: 9780367317133 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 227 str.

Robert D. Lee

Opis

?Authenticity? has begun to rival ?development? as a key to understanding the political aspirations of the Islamic world. Almost everywhere modernity has laid waste to tradition, those habits and practices deemed to be timeless and true. Imperialism carried European notions of progress into Muslim-dominated parts of the globe, and subsequently Musl

Spis treści

The Concept of Authenticity -- Authenticity in European Thought -- Muhammad Iqbal -- Sayyid Qutb -- Ali Shari'ati -- Mohammed Arkoun -- The Elusiveness of Authenticity

O autorze

Robert D. Lee is professor of political science at Colorado College.