Overview
This intellectual biography of Muhammad al-Shawkani, one of the founding fathers of modern Islamic reformism, is also a study of an important transitional period in Yemeni history which saw the shift from traditional Shi'ism to Sunni reformism. The transition propelled political, religious and social change. While Shawkani espoused a socio-religious order which echoed aspects of Western thinking, the book demonstrates that it was indigenous to Islamic thought. Shawkani's ideas remain vital to the intellectual debates happening in Islam today.
- | Author: Bernard Haykel
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Jun 16, 2003
- | Number of Pages: 284 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0521816289
- | ISBN-13: 9780521816281
