Mahmūd Shaltūt and Islamic Modernism

by Kate Zebiri

Shaykh Mahmud Shaltut (1897-1963) was a scholar and reformer who held the most senior position in Egypt open to Sunni Muslim religious scholars--that of Rector of the Azhar University in Cairo. His period of office (1958-63) was a turbulent time in Egypt and within the Azhar itself, with President Nasser's socialist government initiating a radical reorganization of that institution in accordance with its policy of exerting greater control over the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198263309
• ISBN13: 9780198263302
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"