Discursive pluralism and Islamic modernism in Egypt.
From: Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
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Date: 1/1/2002
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Author: Moaddel, Mansoor
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THE TWENTY-FIVE YEARS BEFORE and after 1900 constituted one of the most ideologically innovative episodes in the intellectual history of modern Egypt. A prime example of this ideological creativity is the rise of a new movement among the country's Muslim thinkers. This movement displayed an affinity with the Enlightenment, daring criticisms of the orthodoxy, re-examinations of Islamic theology and its normative rules of conduct in light of the prevailing scientific standards, and an ...
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