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The central problem of thinkers and others in the Muslim world was how to face and perhaps how to integrate into their lives aspects of modernity (modernization). This chapter considers some of the problems they faced and some of the solutions proposed.
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J. Cooper quoting Barbara Stowasser, in Islam and Modernity (London, 1998), p. 38.
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Arabic has two roots to express modern and it is quite difficult in everyday usage to distinguish between them. ‘Asri tends to mean ‘contemporary’ and jadid new. It is interesting that mujaddid (the historical term for the awaited reformer or mahdi ) comes from the second root and means not someone who brings in something new but who restores something that once existed—the very opposite of modernization.
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Islam and Modernity, p. 4.
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Compare the views of Muhammad al-Nuwayhi well summarized by I.J. Boullata, in Trends and Issues in Contemporary Arab Thought (Albany, New York, 1990), p. 158.
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Boullata, p. 163 quoting Halim Barakat, in Al-mujtama’ al-‘arabi al-hadith.
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‘Can modern rationality shape a new religiosity?’ by A. Filali Ansari , in Islam and Modernity, p. 167.
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Ibid., p. 171.
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T. Eagleton, The Illusions of Post-modernism (Oxford, 1996), p. vii.
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Islam and Modernity, p. 9. See R.L. Nettler, ‘Mohammad Talbi’s ideas on Islam and Politics’, pp. 129–155.
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Ibid., p. 145.
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Ibid., p. 148.
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Ibid., p. 153.
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Ibid., p. 153.
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Hopwood, D. (2018). What Is Modernity in Islam?. In: Islam's Renewal. St Antony's Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75202-0_9
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