An Islamic Response to Imperialism: Political and Religious Writings of Sayyid Jamal ad-Din "al-Afghani"
"Keddie has rendered a valuable service ... Afghani merits the attention of Western students of the contemporary international scene and the Muslim renaissance since he made the first significant attempt to answer the modern Western challenge to the Muslim world." --- Eastern World "S...
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Zusammenfassung: | "Keddie has rendered a valuable service ... Afghani merits the
attention of Western students of the contemporary international
scene and the Muslim renaissance since he made the first
significant attempt to answer the modern Western challenge to the
Muslim world." --- Eastern World "Sayyid Jamal ad-Din
al-Afghani (1838-1897), the well known religious reformer and
political activist, led a busy and complex life full of obscure and
clandestine ventures. . . . [Keddie] draws on a wide range of
primary and secondary sources. In part I an attempt is made to
provide an accurate biography and a consistent analysis of Afghani.
Part II co ntains translations of some of his most important
writings. . . Although Afghani was concerned with the wide ranging
need for Islamic reform, he devoted most of his life to the more
urgent political problems confronting Muslims--problems arising out
of their weakness in dealing with the Western Christian powers.
Hence the tide of this book. The picture that emerges here confirms
Afghani's long standing reputation as a defender of Muslim
interests--not against borrowing European advances in science and
technology, but against foreign political, economic, or military
encroachment."-- Middle East journal "Jamal ad-Din was a
mysterious figure and most of the mysteries were of his own making
. . . it has been left to Professor Keddie to apply the methods of
the critical historian to the matter ... This book shows how
successful she has been . . . there has emerged for the first time
a credible picture of Jamal ad-Din's life . . . The second part
contains translations of works by Jamal ad-Din himself, and these
are valuable because most of them were written in Persian and have
either not been easily available at all or else have been available
only in Arabic translation. This is particularly true of the
Refutation of the Materialists. "-- International journal of
Middle East Studies "For the first time a significant
collection of the writings of al-Afghani are now available in
English, and so, for the first time, this controversial figure has
had more life breathed into him."-- American Historical
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