The ulama in contemporary Islam :
Zaman, Muhammad Qasim
The ulama in contemporary Islam : custodians of change Muhammad Qasim Zaman - Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, c2002. - xv, 293 p. ; 24 cm. - Princeton studies in Muslim politics . - Princeton studies in Muslim politics. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book offers the first sustained comparative perspective on the `ulama and their increasingly crucial religious and political activism. It shows how issues of religious authority are debated in contemporary Islam, how Islamic law and tradition are continuously negotiated in a rapidly changing world, and how the `ulama both react to and shape larger Islamic social trends. Introducing previously unexamined facets of religious and political thought in modern Islam, it clarifies the complex processes of religious change unfolding in the contemporary Muslim world and goes a long way toward explaining their vast social and political ramifications.
9780691130705 £19.95
2002020127
GBA305971 bnb
Ulama
Scholars, Muslim
297.61
The ulama in contemporary Islam : custodians of change Muhammad Qasim Zaman - Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, c2002. - xv, 293 p. ; 24 cm. - Princeton studies in Muslim politics . - Princeton studies in Muslim politics. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book offers the first sustained comparative perspective on the `ulama and their increasingly crucial religious and political activism. It shows how issues of religious authority are debated in contemporary Islam, how Islamic law and tradition are continuously negotiated in a rapidly changing world, and how the `ulama both react to and shape larger Islamic social trends. Introducing previously unexamined facets of religious and political thought in modern Islam, it clarifies the complex processes of religious change unfolding in the contemporary Muslim world and goes a long way toward explaining their vast social and political ramifications.
9780691130705 £19.95
2002020127
GBA305971 bnb
Ulama
Scholars, Muslim
297.61