Putting a Rope on Tradition
“Traditional Islam is not the replication of the positions of the ancients; it is to seek what they sought”.[1] Introduction During my doctoral research, an ethnography of a Dār al-‘Ulūm (madrasa) in Britain, the notion…
Imagining the Muslim Civilization and Umma in the Modern Era: A Comparative Review of Debates on Civilization in the Muslim World and The Idea of the Muslim World
Debates regarding all-encompassing transnational identities, and the historical circumstances which contributed to the construction of such imaginations, are gaining momentum as today’s ever-globalizing world becomes more interconnected in challenging long-standing sensibilities and allegiances at a…
[Book Review] Cemil Aydin, The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History (Harvard University Press, 2017)
Cemil Aydin, The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017). 304 pages, $29.95, ISBN: 9780674050372. Reviewed by Chandler Barton. Although Cemil Aydin’s The Idea of the Muslim World is as…