Muhammad Qasim Zaman: 3 books
Islam in Pakistan
A History
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The first book to explore the modern history of Islam in South Asia
The first modern state to be founded in the name of Islam, Pakistan was the largest Muslim country in the world at the time of its establishment in 1947. Today it is the second-most populous, after Indonesia. Islam in Pakistan...
Ashraf `Ali Thanawi
Islam in Modern South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Ashraf Ali Thanawi (1863-1943) was one of the most prominent religious scholars in Islamic history. Author of over a thousand books on different aspects of Islam, his work sought to defend the Islamic scholarly tradition and to articulate its authority in an age of momentous religious and political...
Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age
Religious Authority and Internal Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Among traditionally educated scholars in the Islamic world there is much disagreement on the crises that afflict modern Muslim societies and how best to deal with them, and the debates have grown more urgent since 9/11. Through an analysis of the work of Muhammad Rashid Rida and Yusuf al-Qaradawi...