Modernity in Islamic Tradition

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Modernity in Islamic Tradition is written by Florian Zemmin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3110545845 (ISBN 10) and 9783110545845 (ISBN 13).

What does it mean to be modern? This study regards the concept of ‘society’ as foundational to modern self-understanding. Identifying Arabic conceptualizations of society in the journal al-Manar, the mouthpiece of Islamic reformism, the author shows how modernity was articulated from within an Islamic discursive tradition. The fact that the classical term umma was a principal term used to conceptualize modern society suggests the convergence of discursive traditions in modernity, rather than a mere diffusion of European concepts.