Egypt and the Crisis of Islam (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820410609)

The military sway of European power over the Islamic world after World War I, threatened to take an intellectual turn aimed at undermining the whole edifice of Islamic belief. Egyptian intellectuals: Taha Husayn, Haykal and al-'Aqqãd and others, addressing themselves mainly to a new half-westernized and confused audience of educated Muslims applied Western modes of thought, analysis and presentation, to the effect of re-asserting faith in Islam, its beliefs, symbols and heroes. In the process, they evolved a liberal Islamic outlook, which is neither secular along lines drawn by Kemal Ataturk, nor fundamentalist along lines drawn by traditionalists.

Author: Zahia Ragheb Dajani
ISBN-10: 0820410608
ISBN-13: 9780820410609
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 03/01/1990
Pages: 255
Format: Hardcover