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Publisher | Oxford University Press |
ISBN 13 | 9780190251789 |
ISBN 10 | 0190251786 |
Author | Postdoctoral Researcher Nathan Spannaus |
Book Format | Hardcover |
Language | English |
Book Description | The end of the eighteenth century was a transformational period for the Muslim communities in the Russian Empire and their relationship with the tsarist state. One of the major figures to emerge out of this context was the reformer Abu Nasr Qursawi ( |
About the Author | Nathan Spannaus is a specialist in Islamic intellectual history and religious thought. He is a graduate of McGill University's Institute of Islamic Studies and Harvard's Deparment of Near Eastern Languages aand Civilizations, and he has held positions at Princeton and Oxford. His work has appeared in Islamic Law and Society, Muslim World, Arabica, and Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, and he has contributed to the Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology, the Encyclopedia of Islam and the two-volume Modern Islamic Authority and Social Change. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in Islamic philosophy at University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. |
Publication Date | 2019-08-06 |
Number of Pages | 352 pages |
Preserving Islamic Tradition: Abu Nasr Qursawi and the Beginnings of Modern Reformism