Christian Criticisms, Islamic Proofs: Rashid Rida's Modernist Defence of Islam - Softcover

Wood, Simon A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1851686711 ISBN 13: 9781851686711

Publisher: Oneworld Academic, 2012

Synopsis

Muhammad Rashid Rida is among the most influential Muslim thinkers of the modern period and yet, until now, his writings on Christian-Muslim relations have remained unpublished in English. In this flagship English edition, Simon A. Wood rights this wrong by translating and analysing one of his most important works, The Criticisms of the Christians and the Proofs of Islam. Contending that Rida’s work cannot be separated from the period of colonial humiliation from which it originated, he challenges the view that Rida was a fundamentalist and argues that his response to Christian criticisms was, in fact, distinctly modernist.

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About the Author

Simon A. Wood is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He is a leading expert on Rashid Rida and has given numerous high profile lectures on the topic.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oneworld Academic
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1851686711
• ISBN 13: 9781851686711
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248