UID:
edocfu_9958909715502883
Format:
1 online resource (532 p.)
ISBN:
9783110545845
Series Statement:
Religion and Society ; 76
Content:
What does it mean to be modern? This study regards the concept of ‘society’ as foundational to modern self-understanding. Identifying Arabic conceptualizations of society in the journal al-Manar, the mouthpiece of Islamic reformism, the author shows how modernity was articulated from within an Islamic discursive tradition. The fact that the classical term umma was a principal term used to conceptualize modern society suggests the convergence of discursive traditions in modernity, rather than a mere diffusion of European concepts.
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Frontmatter --
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Acknowledgments /
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Contents --
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Chapter 1 Introduction: Modernity, Islam, and Society – The Argument for a Heuristic Eurocentrism --
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Part A. Assumptions: ‘Society’ and the Secular in European Modernity --
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Chapter 2. ‘Society’ in European Modernity --
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Chapter 3. A Secular Age as a Heuristic Tool --
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Part B. Expectations: Egyptian Modernity, al-Manar, and Arabic Concepts --
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Chapter 4. Modernity in Egypt: Nation, Society, Secularism, and the Press --
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Chapter 5. Al-Manar: The Mouthpiece of Islamic Reformism --
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Chapter 6. The Arabic Saddle Period and Arabic Terms for ‘Society’ --
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Part C. Findings: ‘Society’ in al-Manar --
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Chapter 7. Al-Hayʾa al-Ijtimāʿiyya in al-Manar: Offering Umma as an Alternative --
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Chapter 8. Mujtamaʿ in al-Manar: Avoiding the Established Meaning of ‘Society’ --
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Chapter 9. Rafiq al-ʿAzm: Islamic Reformist, Secular Historian, and Sociological Thinker --
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Chapter 10. Social Association Reified: Ijtimāʿ, Ijtimāʿī, and Umma in Articles by Rashid Rida --
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Chapter 11. Conclusion: Society, The Immanent Frame, and Modernity – Concepts, Spins, and Genealogies --
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Bibliography --
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Appendix: Tables of Search Terms --
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Index
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110544862
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110543995
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110545845
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.1515/9783110545845
