عنوان

The Authenticity and Authority of Islam

LA127055

انگلیسی

The Authenticity and Authority of Islam

[Article]

Deanna Ferree Womack

Leiden

Brill

This paper examines the concept of Islamic authority in relation to early twentieth-century Protestant missionary writings on Islam and Muhammad Rashid Rida's commentaries on mission publications in his Cairo-based journal, al-Manar. While Rida's Salafi reformism has been the subject of much discussion, scholars have given little attention to the content of the missionary writings Rida engaged. Treatments of Rida's work have also neglected to address the vision of Islamic authority that emerges from his responses to Christian polemics. This paper gives both subjects further consideration as it discusses Protestant missionary approaches to Islam, examines Rida's writings on Christianity, and assesses his response to a widely circulated article on Islam by Temple Gairdner, a prominent British missionary with the Church Missionary Society in Egypt. This paper examines the concept of Islamic authority in relation to early twentieth-century Protestant missionary writings on Islam and Muhammad Rashid Rida's commentaries on mission publications in his Cairo-based journal, al-Manar. While Rida's Salafi reformism has been the subject of much discussion, scholars have given little attention to the content of the missionary writings Rida engaged. Treatments of Rida's work have also neglected to address the vision of Islamic authority that emerges from his responses to Christian polemics. This paper gives both subjects further consideration as it discusses Protestant missionary approaches to Islam, examines Rida's writings on Christianity, and assesses his response to a widely circulated article on Islam by Temple Gairdner, a prominent British missionary with the Church Missionary Society in Egypt.

2015

89-115

Social Sciences and Missions

28/1-2

1874-8945

Egypte

History of Religion

islam

missions protestantes

Protestant missions

Rashid Rida

Religion & Society

Religious Studies

Social Sciences

Temple Gairdner

Deanna Ferree Womack

10.1163/18748945-02801005

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[Article]

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