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Islam and Modernity JSLAM and MODERNITY Muslim Intellectuals Respond Edited by . John Cooper, Ronald L Nettler and Mohamed Mahmoud I.B.Tauris Publishers LONDON ♦ NEW YORK Published in 1998 by I.B.Tauris 8C Co Ltd Victoria House Bloomsbury Square London WC1B 4DZ 175 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10010 In the United States of America and in Canada distributed by St Martin's Press 175 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10010 Copyright © 1998John Cooper, Ronald L. Nettler and Mohamed Mahmoud All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book or any part thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. A full CIP record for this book is available from the British Library A full CIP record for this book is available from the Library of Congress ISBN 1 86064 175 X Library of Congress catalog card number: available Typeset in Adobe Jenson by Hepton Books, Oxford Printed and bound in Great Britain by WBC Ltd, Bridgend, Mid-Glamorgan _ Contents Introduction: The Culture of Modernity in Islam and the Middle East DEREK HOPWOOD 1 Nature, Hyperbole, and the Colonial State: Some Muslim Appropriations of European Modernity in Late Nineteenth-Century Urdu Literature JAVED MAJEED 2 The Limits of the Sacred: The Epistemology of'Abd al-Karim Soroush JOHN COOPER 3 Islamic Scholar and Religious Leader: Shaikh Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti ANDREAS CHRISTMANN 4 Islamic History, Islamic Identity and the Reform of Islamic Law: The Thought of Husayn Ahmad Amin NADIA ABU-ZAHRA 5 Mahmud Muhammad Taha's Second Message of Islam and his Modernist Project MOHAMED MAHMOUD 6 Mohamed Talbi's Ideas on Islam and Politics: A Conception of Islam for the Modern World RONALD L. NETTLER 7 Can Modern Rationality Shape a New Religiosity? Mohamed Abedjabri and the Paradox of Islam and Modernity ABDOU FILALI-ANSARI 156 8 Islam, Europe, the West: Meanings-at-Stake and the Will-to Power MOHAMMED ARKOUN 172 9 Divine Attributes in the Qur’an: Some Poetic Aspects NASR HAMID ABU ZAID 190 Bibliography 212 Index 223 Notes on the Contributors Nadia Abu-Zahra is an anthropologist. She received her PhD from Oxford University and has since done fieldwork in The Sahel of T unisia and in Cairo. Her articles and books cover various areas of the Middle East; currently she writes on Muslim society. Her most recent book is The Pure and Powerful (Reading: Ithaca Press, 1997). Nasr Hamid Rizk Abu-Zaid received his university education in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Cairo, where he received his PhD in Arabic and Islamic studies in 1981. Since then he has been teaching in the same department, reaching the level of full professor in 1995. From 1985-9 he was Visiting Professor at the Osaka University of Foreign Studies, and from 1995 he has been Visiting Professor at the University of Leiden. In May 1993 he was awarded the Republican Order of Merit for his services to Arab culture by the President of Tunisia. He has published extensively in Arabic on Quranic exegesis and Islamic law, as well as on the critical study of Muslim religious discourse; one of his works, Naqd al-khitab al-dini, has been translated into German by Cherifa Magdi as Kritik der religiosen Diskurses (Frankfurt-am-Main: Dipa Verlag, 1996). Mohammed Arkoun was born in Taourirt-Mimoun (Algeria). He studied at the University of Algiers before taking up the post of assistant professor at the Sorbonne (1961-9). He received his doctorat at the Sorbonne in 1969, and went on to occupy the post of professor there from 1970-92. He is presently Emeritus professor at the Sorbonne, Paris III, and Visiting Professor at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London. He is also the director of the scholarly journal Arabica, and a jury member of the Aga Khan Award for Achitecture. He has published many articles and books in Arabic, French and English; his books include: Vhumanisme arabe au IVe/Xe siecle (2nd ed., Paris: J. Vrin, 1982), Critique de la raison islamique (Paris, 1984), Lectures du Coran (2nd ed., Vlll ISLAM AND MODERNITY Tunis, 1991), Rethinking Islam: common questions, uncommon answers (Boulder, Colorado, 1993), Lapensee arabe (Paris: PUF, 1996). Andreas Christmann is a graduate student of the University of Leipzig where he is completing his PhD dissertation in the Department of Religious Studies. In 1995-7 he was the Volkswagen Visiting Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford. He did fieldwork in Syria in 1995 and 1996 on the observance of Ramadan and the use made of various media for the dissemination of Islamic teachings during that month. His main interest is the analysis of Islamic discourse and its impact on religious practice. He has published articles on contemporary Islamic rituals and the Muslim media in German and English. John Cooper studied at the University of Oxford and the traditional religious schools in Qum and Tehran. For the last seven years he has been the E. G. Browne Lecturer in Persian Studies at the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Cambridge. His research interests include Islamic jurisprudence, philosophy, and mysticism, and he has published numerous translations of classical and modern texts from Arabic and Persian, including the first volume of al-Tabari's Commentary on the Qur’an (Oxford: OUP, 1986), as well as articles on aspects of the history of the Islamic religious sciences. Abdou Filali-Ansari was born in Morocco in 1946. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Dijon with a dissertation on the philosophy of Spinoza and Bergson. He has taught philosophy at the Faculte des Lettres in Rabat (1970-3), and has held posts in the Moroccan administration. In 1985 he was appointed Director of the King ‘Abd al-Aziz Foundation for Islamic Studies and the Human Sciences in Casablanca. Since 1994 he has been the editor of Prologues: Revue maghrebine du livre. Among his works are articles and books on contemporary Islamic thought, and a French translation of'Ali ‘Abd al-Raziq’s Islam and the Foundation of Political Power (Paris: La Decouverte/Casablance: Le Fennec, 1995). Notes on the Contributors ix Derek Hopwood is Reader in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford, Fellow of St Antony’s College, and Director of the Middle East Centre. He is also President of the European Association of Middle East Studies. Among his books are: Egypt: Politics and society 1945-90 (1991), Syria 1945-1986: Politics and society (1988), Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia: the tragedy of longevity (1992), and The Russian Presence in Syria and Palestine 1843-1914: Church and Politics in the Near East (1969). Mohamed Mahmoud has taught at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Khartoum and at the Oriental Institute at the University of Oxford. At present he teaches at the Department of Religion at Tufts University. His research interests include the Qur'an and modem Islam. Javed Majeed is currently lecturer in the Department of South Asia at SO AS, University of London. He graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford, where he also did his DPhil. He is the author of Ungoverned Imaginings: James Mill’s The History of British India and Orientalism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), and also of a number of articles in scholarly journals and chapters in edited books. He is the co-author with Christopher Shackle of Hali’s Musaddas: the flow and ebb of Islam (Delhi: OUP, 1997). Ronald L. Nettler is Fellow in Muslim-Jewish Relations at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Hebrew Centre Lecturer in Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor in Oriental Studies at Mansfield College, Oxford. He does research and has published widely on modern and medieval Islamic religious thought, as well as on the history of Muslim-Jewish relations.
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