Interpreting Islam: Bandali Jawzi's Islamic Intellectual History

by Bandali Jawzi and Tamara Sonn

Book Overview

In this book, Sonn provides the first English translation of The History of Intellectual Movements in Islam (1928), a seminal text of Arab modernism written by the Palestinian intellectual Bandali al-Jawzi (1871-1942). In that book, Jawzi offered the first Marxist interpretation of the history and development of Islamic thought. The continuing importance of his work lies in Jawzi's critical method of reevaluating both European "orientalist" and classical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195100514
• ISBN13: 9780195100518
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"