What does it mean to be modern? This study regards the idea of society as most fundamental to the modern self-understanding. This idea crystallized in the concept of 'society' but may, partially, also be expressed by related concepts. Identifying Arabic conceptualizations of the idea of society in the journal al-Manar, the mouthpiece of Islamic Modernism, the author shows how modernity was articulated from within an Islamic discursive tradition.
What does it mean to be modern? This study regards the idea of society as most fundamental to the modern self-understanding. This idea crystallized...
