Eighteenth-century renewal and reform in Islam /

Eighteenth-century renewal and reform in Islam / [print] edited by Nehemia Levtzion and John O. Voll. - first edition. - Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, (c)1987. - 200 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index. Papers from an International Colloquium on "Eighteenth Century Renewal and Reform in Islam", held in June 1985 and sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Studies, the Harry S. Truman Research Institute, and the Center for the Study of Islamic Civilization, all of Hebrew University.

Introduction 1. The eighteenth century : background to the Islamic revolutions in West Africa / Nehemia Levtzion -- 2. Muslim thought in eighteenth-century West Africa : the case of Shaykh Uthman born Fudi 3. Linking groups in the networks of eighteenth-century revivalist scholars : the Mizjaji family in Yemen 4. The battered dervishes of Bab Zuwayla : a religious riot in eighteenth-century Cairo 5. Mustafa Kamal al-Din al-Bakri (1688-1749) : revival and reform of the Khalwatiyya tradition? / Frederick De Jong -- 6. Aspects of Akhbari thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 7. The growth of Muslim identity in eighteenth-century Bengal Nehemia Levtzion and John O. Voll -- Louis Brenner -- John O. Voll -- Rudolph Peters -- Etan Kohlberg -- Richard M. Eaton.



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