Al-Azhar and the Evolution of Modern Sunni Islam
by
Indira Falk Gesink
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
The famed reform debates at al-Azhar Madrasa in nineteenth-century Cairo, one of the most influential centres of religious study in Sunni Islam, were enormously influential for twentieth-century Islamic thought. Here Indira Gesink offers a revisionist history of these debates over curricular and administrative...