Zaman The Ulama in Contemporary Islam

Custodians of Change
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3751-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics

Muhammad Qasim Zaman is Robert H. Niehaus '77 Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Religion at Princeton University. He is the author of Religion and Politics under the Early Abbasids and the editor, with Robert W. Hefner, of Schooling Islam: The Culture and Politics of Modern Muslim Education (Princeton).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zaman, Muhammad Qasim

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FOREWORD ix

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii

Introduction 1

I: Islamic Law and the 'Ulama in Colonial India: A Legal Tradition in Transition 17

II: Constructions of Authority 38

III: The Rhetoric of Reform and the Religious Sphere 60

IV: Conceptions of the Islamic State 87

V: Refashioning Identities 111

VI: Religiopolitical Activism and the 'Ulama: Comparative Perspectives 144

Epilogue: The 'Ulama in the Twenty-First Century 181

NOTES 193

GLOSSARY 259

BIBLIOGRAPHY 263

INDEX 287

Über Autor(innen)

Muhammad Qasim Zaman is Robert H. Niehaus '77 Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Religion at Princeton University. He is the author of Religion and Politics under the Early Abbasids and the editor, with Robert W. Hefner, of Schooling Islam: The Culture and Politics of Modern Muslim Education (Princeton).