Recent events have focused attention on the perceived tensions between the Muslim world and the modern West, with the sense that Islam appears resistant to internal development and inherently pre-modern. However Muslim societies have experienced most of the same structural changes that have impacted
Islam and Modernity: Key Issues and Debates
โ Scribed by Muhammad Khalid Masud; Armando Salvatore; Martin van Bruinessen
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 305
- Category
- Library
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