Halevi - Modern Things on Trial

books, islam

• Regular book on how commericialization and modernization has lead to changes in islam, which Rida inevitably bought into in order to reform Islam

• alAfghanni, Abudl, Rida triumvrate, with Bakhit following

• Closing the gates of ijtihad

• Q: most items did not prompt a fight, but does the ones that do reflect something on society, or of religion, or both?

• Typical praise that this is cross material, talks about how the field did not care about materials

• al-Fadl: What Type of Law is Islamic Law

• Corporate Islam?

• What did these introductions do for the social classes at the time? Did they serve to solidfy social classes? Were they conservative, or liberating forces

• In other words, what did this book actually do? Why is this relevant? It is relevant for Rida because X, it is relevant for us because Y

• Book Reviews

  • https://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/658/74

  • https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.13169/arabstudquar.42.1-2.0136.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A7fc0c02347e1385e0d7ac916502b5223

  • https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-middle-east-studies/article/abs/modern-things-on-trial-islams-global-and-material-reformation-in-the-age-of-rida-1865-1935-leor-halevi-new-york-columbia-university-press-2019-pp-384-7500-cloth-isbn-9780231188661/1D66534710B4AEE4EF659AF78A9616C9

  • https://www.jstor.org/stable/162939

  • https://academic.oup.com/jaar/article-abstract/89/1/397/6248151

  • https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/40710