`Abduh, Muḥammad

This dissertation aims at documenting the link between the rise of Islamic militancy in Egypt and a process of institutional change which was carried out by four Muslim reformers: Jamal al-Din al-Afghani (d. 1897), Muhammad ʿAbduh (d. 1905), Rashid Rida (d. 1935), and Hasan al-B…

One of the core debates of the Muslim intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was on the question of whether Islam could or should embrace change. If so, then how would this change take place in meeting the current challenges, while also staying faithful to the p…

This dissertation presents an analysis of the legal thinking of two modern Muslim religious reformers, particularly their usage of a concept in Sunni Islamic legal theory known in Arabic as maqas[dotbelow]id al-shari`a . The religious reformers who are the subjects of this disse…