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Modernist Islam Was A Major Intellectual Current In The Muslim World During The 19th And 20th Centuries. Proponents Of This Movement Typically Believed That It Was Not Only Possible But Imperative To Show How Modern Values And Institutions Could Be Reconciled With Authentically Islamic Ideals. This Sourcebook Brings Together A Broad Range Of Writings On Modernist Islam From Across The Muslim World. It Makes Available For The First Time In English The Writings Of Many Of The Activists And Intellectuals Who Made Up The Early Modernist Islamic Movement. Charles Kurzman And A Team Of Section Editors, Each Specializing In A Different Region Of The Islamic World, Have Assembled, Translated, And Annotated The Work Of The Most Important Of These Figures. With The Publication Of This Volume, An English-speaking Audience Will Have Wider Access To The Literature Of Modernist Islam Than Did The Makers Of The Movement Themselves.--publisher Description. Section 1. Africa: -- 1. Rifʻa Rafiʻa Al-tahtawi, Egypt, 1801-1873 -- 2. Khayr Al-din, Tunisia, 1822-1890 -- 3. Muhammad ʻabduh, Egypt, 1849-1905 -- 4. Qasim Amin, Egypt, 1863-1905 -- 5. Bahithat Al-badiya, Egypt, 1886-1918 -- 6. Muhammad Rashid Rida, Lebanon-egypt, 1865-1935 -- 7. Shayk Al-amin Bin ʻali Al-mazrui, Kenya, 1890-1947 -- 8. Abdullah Abdurahman, South Africa, 1870-1949 -- 9. ʻabd Al-hamid Ibn Badis, Algeria, 1889-1940 -- 10. Muhammad Ahmad Mahjub, Sudan, 1908-1976 -- Section 2. Iran/afghanistan: -- 11. Sayyid Jamal Al-din Al-afghani, Iran, 1838-1897 -- 12. Mirza Malkum Khan, Iran, 1833-1908 -- 13. Muhammad Husayn Naʻini, Iran, 1860-1936 -- 14. Mahmud Tarzi, Afghanistan, 1865-1933 -- Section 3. Ottoman Empire: -- 15. ʻabd Al-qadir Al-jazaʻiri, Algeria-syria, Circa 1807-1883 -- 16. Ali Suavi, Turkey, 1839-1879 -- 17. Namik Kemal, Turkey, 1840-1888 -- 18. Şemseddin Sami Frashëri, Albania-turkey, 1850-1904 -- 19. ʻabd Al-rahman Al-kawakibi, Syria, 1854-1902 --^ 20. Mahmud Shukri Al-alusi, Iraq, 1857-1924 -- 21. Abdullah Cevdet, Turkey, 1869-1931 -- 22. Musa Kazim, Turkey, 1859-1920 -- 23. Jamal Al-din Al-qasimi, Syria, 1866-1914 -- 24. Mansurizade Saʻid, Turkey, 1864-1923 -- 25. Ziya Gökalp, Turkey, 1876-1924 -- 26. Džemaluddin Čaušsević, Bosnia, 1870-1938 -- 27. ʻabd Al-qadir Al-maghribi, Lebanon, 1867-1956 -- 28. Halid Edib Adivar, Turkey, 1882-1964 -- Section 4. Russian Empire: -- 29. Ismail Bey Gasprinskii, Crimea, 1851-1914 -- 30. Munawwar Qari, Turkistan-uzbekistan, 1878-1931 -- 31. Ahmed Aghayev, Azerbaijan, 1869-1939 -- 32. Abdullah Bubi, Tatarstan, 1871-1922 -- 33. Rizaeddin Bin Fakhreddin, Tatarstan, 1858-1936 -- 34. Abdurrauf Fitrat, Bukhara-uzbekistan, 1886-1938 -- 35. Musa Jarullah Bigi, Tatarstan, 1875-1938 -- 36. Mahmud Khoja Behbudiy, Turkistan-uzbekistan, 1874-1919 -- 37. Abdulhamid Sulayman Cholpan, Turkistan-uzbekistan, 1893-1938 -- Section 5. South Asia: -- 38. Khwaja Altaf Hussein Hali, North India --^ 39. Chiragh ʻali, North India, 1844-1895 -- 40. Sayyid Ahmad Khan, North India, 1817-1898 -- 41. Muhammad Iqbal, North India, 1877-1938 -- 42. Muhammad Abdul Khader Maulavi, Malabar, 1873-1932 -- 43. Ameer ʻali, Bengal, 1849-1928 -- 44. Abuʻl-kalam Azad, Bengal-india, 1888-1958 -- 45. Muhammad Akram Khan, Bengal-pakistan, 1868-1968 -- Section 6. Southeast/east Asia: -- 46. Al-imam Newspaper, Singapore, 1906-1908 -- 47. Achmad Dachlan, Java, 1868-1923 -- 48. Syekh Ahmad Surkati, Sudan-java, 1872-1943 -- 49. Hadji Agus Salim, Sumatra-java, 1884-1954 -- 50. Ahmad Hassan, Singapore-indonesia, 1888-1958 -- 51. Muhammad Hadyim Asyʻari, Java, 1871-1947 -- 52. Yaʻqub Wang Jingzhai, China, 1879-1949. Edited By Charles Kurzman. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.