Christian Criticisms, Islamic Proofs: Rashid Rida"s Modernist Defence of Islam
Price 89.80 USD
EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9781851684618
Author
Simon Wood
Producer
Oneworld Publications
Pages
256
Year of production
2008
Responding to arguments made in the Victorian period that Islam is "irrational" or "inferior to Christianity" and that the unification of religious and political power is a "barrier to progress," Rida sought to defend Islam and often charged Christianity of its own brand of irrationality. Wood analyzes these arguments and contends that Rida"s work cannot be separated from the period of colonial humiliation from which it originated. He also takes on the traditional accusation that Rida was a fundamentalist and argues that he was in fact distinctly modernist.