Islamic Reform and Conservatism: Al-Azhar and the Evolution of Modern Sunni Islam (Library of Modern Religion) - Softcover

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The reform debates at al-Azhar Madrasa in nineteenth-century Cairo - one of the most influential centres of religious study in Sunni Islam - were enormously influential for twentieth-century Islamic thought. This book argues that narratives of these debates overemphasize the roles of modernists like Muhammad 'Abduh, obscuring important themes.

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