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Author Weismann, Itzchak

Title Taste of modernity : Sufism, Salafiyya, and Arabism in late Ottoman Damascus / by Itzchak Weismann
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 343 pages)
Series Islamic history and civilization. Studies and texts, 0929-2403 ; v. 34
Islamic history and civilization ; v. 34. 0929-2403
Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: In Support of the Sultan -- The Naqshbandiyya-Khalidiyya; Part Two: Facing the West -- The Akbariyya; Part Three: Resistance to the Emerging Modern State -- The Salafiyya; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index
Summary Modernization in the Muslim world was determined by the two interrelated processes of indigenous state formation and European economic penetration. This study traces the emergence of modern Islam and examines the relationship of Islamic modernization to the rise of Arab Nationalism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-333) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Salafīyah -- Syria
Sufism -- Syria -- Damascus -- History
Islam -- Syria -- Damascus -- History
RELIGION -- Islam -- History.
Islam
Salafīyah
Sufism
Syria
Syria -- Damascus
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1417551879
9781417551873
9047400615
9789047400615
1280464461
9781280464461
9786610464463
6610464464