Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic World

Incorporating a rich series of case-studies covering a range of geographical areas, this collection of essays examines the history of modern intellectuals in the Islamic world throughout the twentieth century. The contributors reassess the typology and history of various scholars, providing significant diachronic analysis of the different forms of communication, learning, and authority. While each chapter presents a separate regional case, with an historically and geographically different background, the volume discloses commonalities, similarities and intellectual echoes through its comparative approach. Consisting of two parts, the volume focuses first on al-Manar, the influential journal published between 1898 and 1935 that inspired much imagination and arguments among local intelligentsias all over the Islamic world. The second part discusses the formation, transmission and transformation of learning and authority, from the Middle East to Central and Southeast Asia. Constituting a milestone in comparative studies of the modern Islamic world, this book highlights the range of and transformation in the role of intellectuals in Islamic societies.

Stéphane A. DUDOIGNON is a research fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research (Strasbourg). KOMATSU Hisao is a professor at the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo. KOSUGI Yasushi is a professor at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University.

Part 1: Al-Manar in the Changing Islamic World 1. Al-Manar Revisited: The "Lighthouse" of the Islamic Revival 2. Al-Manar and Popular Religion in Syria, 1898-1920 3. The Manarists and Modernism: An Attempt to Fuse Society and Religion 4. The Influence of Al-Manar on Islamism in Turkey: The Case of Mehmed Akif 5. Echoes to Al-Manar among the Muslims of the Russian Empire: A Preliminary Research Note on Riza ad-Din b. Fakhr ad-Din and the sura (1908-1918) 6. Rationalizing Patriotism among Muslim Chinese: The Impact of the Middle East on the Yuehua Journal 7. The Transmission of Al-Manar's Reformism to the Malay-Indonesian World: The Case of Al-Imam and Al-Muni Part 2: Intellectuals in Challenge: Situations, Discourses, Strategies 8. The Arabo-Islamic Constitutional Thought at 1907: 'Abd Al-Karim Murad (d. 1926) and His Draft Constitution for Morocco 9. Constructing Transnational Islam: The East-West Network of Shakib Arslan 10. Muslim Intellectuals in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the Twentieth Century: Continuities and Changes 11. From Social Development to Religious Knowledge: Transformation of the Isma'ilis in Northern Pakistan 12. Islam on the Wings of Nationalism: The Case of Muslim Intellectuals in Republican China 13. Muslim Intellectuals and Japan: A Pan-Islamist Mediator: Abdurreshid Ibrahim 14. Clash of Cultures? Intellectuals, their Publics, and Islam