Guardians of faith in modern times : ʻulamaʼ in the Middle East /

Guardians of faith in modern times : ʻulamaʼ in the Middle East /

This collective volume provides an integrative historical and contemporary discussion of Sunni ʿulamaʾ in the Middle East in both an urban and a semi-tribal context. The various chapters reinforce a renewed interest in the position of the ʿulamaʾ in modern times and offer new insights as to their id...

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Other Authors: Hatina, Meir.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Series: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia 105.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2009, ISBN: 9789004223042.

Subjects:

Islam.
Ulema.
Islam > History.
Ulama.

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Call Number: BP185 .G83 2009

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Meir Hatina
  • Introduction /
  • Meir Hatina
  • Chapter One. ʿUlamaʾ between the state and the society in pre-modern Sunni Islam /
  • Michael Winter
  • Chapter Two. Al-Jabarti's attitude towards the ʿUlamaʾ of his time /
  • Shmuel Moreh
  • Chapter Three. ʿUlamaʾ and political activism in the late Ottoman Empire: The political career of Şeyhülislâm Mustafa Sabri Efendi (1869-1954) /
  • Amit Bein
  • Chapter Four. Italian colonial rule and muslim elites in Libya: A relationship of antagonism and collaboration /
  • Anna Baldinetti
  • Chapter Five. Education, politics, and the struggle for intellectual leadership: Al-Azhar between 1927 and 1945 /
  • Rainer Brunner
  • Chapter Six. The iraqi afghanis and ʿAbduhs: Debate over reform among ShiʿIte and Sunni ʿUlamaʾ in interwar Iraq /
  • Orit Bashkin
  • Chapter Seven. Western scholars on the role of the ʿUlamaʾ in adapting the ShariʿA to modernity: A critical review /
  • Ron Shaham
  • Chapter Eight. ʿUlamaʾ, tribalism and the national struggle in Morocco, 1944-1956 /
  • Daniel Zisenwine
  • Chapter Nine. Reconciling tribalism and Islam in the writings of contemporary ʿUlamaʾ in saudi Arabia /
  • Meir Hatina
  • Chapter Ten. Wahhabis, Sufis and Salafis in early twentieth century Damascus /
  • David Commins
  • Chapter Eleven. The clerics' betrayal? Islamists, ʿUlamaʾ and the polity /
  • Meir Hatina
  • Chapter Twelve. Liberal critics, ʿUlamaʾ and the debate on Islam in the contemporary arab world /
  • Muhammad Abu Samra
  • Chapter Thirteen. In defense of Muhammad: ʿUlamaʾ, DaʿIya and the new islamic internationalism /
  • Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen
  • List of contributors /
  • Meir Hatina
  • Bibliography /
  • Meir Hatina
  • Index /
  • Meir Hatina.