TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zaman,Muhammad Qasim
TI  - The ulama in contemporary Islam: custodians of change
T2  - Princeton studies in Muslim politics
SN  - 9780691130705
U1  - 297.61 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Princeton, N.J., Oxford
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Ulama
KW  - Scholars, Muslim
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; MIST
N2  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/prin022/2002020127.html
ER  -