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An Islamic Reformation?
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Domes
04-30-2005
Michaelle Browers and Charles Kurzman, editors
Lexington Books, Lanham, Md, 2004. 209p. $60.00. ISBN: 073910554X.
In the 1970s it was fashionable for graduate students to argue that Islam
was not a poor copy of Christianity and that it was Eurocentric to suggest
that only a Protestant-style Reformation would propel Muslim societies into
modern times. Muslim reformers from Jamal al-Din al Afghani to Muhammd
Abduh to Sayy...
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