340 Pages
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Routledge
340 Pages
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Routledge
332 Pages
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Routledge
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Max Weber and Islam is a major effort by Islamic-studies specialists to reexamine and appraise Max Weber's perspectives on Islam and its historical development. Eight specialists on Islam and two sociologists explore many dimensions of Weber's comments on Islam, along with Weber's conceptual framework. The volume's introduction links the discussions to contemporary issues and debates. Wolfgang... Read more
Introduction, 1. Hindrances to Modernity: Max Weber on Islam, 2. The Institutionalization of Early Islamic Societies, 3. Aspects of Islamization: Weber’s Observations on Islam Reconsidered, 4. Islamization in Late Medieval Bengal:The Relevance of Max Weber, 5. Max Weber and the Patrimonial Empire in Islam: The Mughal, 6. Paradise or Hell? The Religious Doctrine of Election in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Islamic Fundamentalism and Protestant Calvinism, 7. Weber and Islamic Reform, 8. Secularization, Weber, and Islam, 9. Weber, Islamic Law, and the Rise of Capitalism, 10. Weber and Islamic Sects, 11. Weber’s Analysis of Islam and the Specific Pattern of Islamic Civilization.
Biography
Wolfgang Schluchter
