{"product_id":"rethinking-islamic-modernism","title":"Rethinking Islamic Modernism","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Muslim modernist thinkers and writers in South Asia demanded a reconciliation between Islam and European thought in response to a perceived crisis of Islam. In the ensuing modernist movements, newly founded voluntary associations and their lay members played a crucial role in popularizing and disseminating modernist ideas on the ground, transforming definitions of both religious identity and community in the process.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough an in-depth and multifaceted historical analysis of one of the foremost Muslim associations of colonial North India, the Society for the Defence of Islam (Anjuman-i Himayat-i Islam, established 1884 in Lahore), Maria-Magdalena Pruss proposes a nuanced understanding of Islamic modernism as a mode of thought, highlighting its internal diversity and complex development over a period of more than sixty years. The evolution of this influential association reveals the role and work of lay people, who are shown to be a highly active force in defining and redefining Muslim religious identity through social and educational reform, community welfare initiatives, polemical and apologetic publications, and debates – both within and outside the Muslim community – as well as anti-colonial and nationalist activism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTurning the spotlight away from religious scholars and drawing from extensive, previously untapped local archives and vernacular source materials, \u003ci\u003eRethinking Islamic Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers alternative and localized genealogies of Islamic modernism and makes a compelling argument for taking modernism seriously as a religious tradition in its own right.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McGill-Queen's University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55761642553688,"sku":"9780228027041","price":43.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780228027041.jpg?v=1778735745","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/rethinking-islamic-modernism","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}