Islam and Modernism: A Tudy of the Modern Reform Movement

by Charles C Adams

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Journalist, agitator, lecturer, teacher, reformer ? Muhammad ?Abduh's many contributions to modern Muslim history as the leading reformist of the al-Azhar circle sometimes earned him the title of the father of ?Islamic Modernism'. This intellectual biography by Charles Adams, a sympathetic American academic, examine Islamic reformism in Egypt through the work of ?Abduh (1849?1905), revealing the influences that moulded his thought and tracing his transformation from someone who was ?buried in mystic visions? to a leading champion of Islamic reform.
  • ISBN10 9675062452
  • ISBN13 9789675062452
  • Publish Date 1 January 2013
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country MY
  • Imprint Islamic Book Trust
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 294
  • Language English