Dajani, Zahia Ragheb
Egypt and the Crisis of Islam

The military sway of European power over the Islamic world after World War I, threatened to take an intellectual turn aimed at undermining the whole edifice of Islamic belief. Egyptian intellectuals, addressing themselves mainly to a new half-westernized and confused audience of educated Muslims applied Western modes of thought, analysis and presentation, to the effect of re-asserting faith in Islam, its beliefs, symbols and heroes. In the process, they evolved a liberal Islamic outlook, which is neither «secular» along lines drawn by Kemal Ataturk, nor «fundamentalist» along lines drawn by traditionalists.This study is centered around the thoughts and contributions of three Egyptian Udabâ' namely Taha Husayn, Haykal and al-'Aqqâd. IX,255 Seiten, gebunden (American University Studies. Series IX: History; Vol. 56/Peter Lang Verlag 1990) Mängelexemplar