Muslims and modernity : culture and society since 1800
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1. Introduction: Muslims and modernity: culture and society in an age of contest and plurality Robert W. Hefner Part I. Social Transformations: 2. New networks and new knowledge: migrations, communications and the refiguration of the Muslim community in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries R. Michael Feener 3. Population, urbanisation and the dialectics of globalisation Clement M. Henry 4. The origins and early development of Islamic reform Ahmad S. Dallal 5. Reform and modernism in the…
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