ISBN: 9780195100518

In this book, Sonn provides the first English translation of The History of Intellectual Movements in Islam (1928), a seminal text of Arab modernism written by the Palestinian intellectua… More...

In this book, Sonn provides the first English translation of The History of Intellectual Movements in Islam (1928), a seminal text of Arab modernism written by the Palestinian intellectual Bandali al-Jawzi (1871-1942). In that book, Jawzi offered the first Marxist interpretation of the historyand development of Islamic thought. The continuing importance of his work lies in Jawzi''s critical method of reevaluating both European orientalist and classical Muslim accounts of Islamic history. Fifty years before Edward Said''s landmark Orientalism, Jawzi identified the vested imperialinterests as the weakness in both methodologies. Sonn''s translation brings to life this skillful and entertaining critique of Islamic history. Her introduction places Jawzi''s thought in context with both postmodern intellectuals and Muslim reformers who continue the struggle to apply Islamicprinciples to contemporary life. Tamara Sonn, Books, Religion and Spirituality, Interpreting Islam: Bandali Jawzi's Islamic Intellectual History Books>Religion and Spirituality, Oxford University Press<

ISBN: 9780195100518

In this book, Sonn provides the first English translation of The History of Intellectual Movements in Islam (1928), a seminal text of Arab modernism written by the Palestinian intellectua… More...

In this book, Sonn provides the first English translation of The History of Intellectual Movements in Islam (1928), a seminal text of Arab modernism written by the Palestinian intellectual Bandali al-Jawzi (1871-1942). In that book, Jawzi offered the first Marxist interpretation of the historyand development of Islamic thought. The continuing importance of his work lies in Jawzi''s critical method of reevaluating both European ""orientalist"" and classical Muslim accounts of Islamic history. Fifty years before Edward Said''s landmark Orientalism, Jawzi identified the vested imperialinterests as the weakness in both methodologies. Sonn''s translation brings to life this skillful and entertaining critique of Islamic history. Her introduction places Jawzi''s thought in context with both postmodern intellectuals and Muslim reformers who continue the struggle to apply Islamicprinciples to contemporary life. | Interpreting Islam by Tamara Sonn Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > Religion > Islam P10107, Tamara Sonn<

1996, ISBN: 9780195100518

Bandali Jawzi's Islamic Intellectual History, Hardcover, Buch, [PU: Oxford University Press Inc]