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Article: Intellectual Origins of Islamic Resurgence in the Modern Arab World
- Article from:
- The Middle East Journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Middle East Institute Summer 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Intellectual Origins of Islamic Resurgence in the Modern Arab World, by Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi`. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. xii + 264 pages. Notes to p. 333. Bibl. to p. 365. Index to p. 370. $19.95 paper.
Contrary to the view that a "total vacuum of Islamic intellectualism" exists in the modern Arab world, the author of Intellectual Origins of Islamic Resurgence, a professor of Islamic studies at Hartford Seminary, affirms that Islamism "has emerged as a viable intellectual movement invoking the authority and seeking the legitimacy of the central Islamic tradition" (p. 45). Stressing that Islamic resurgence in general is more than a political phenomenon, Ibrahim ...