Old texts, new practices : Islamic reform in modern Morocco / Etty Terem.

By:

Terem, Etty, 1967- [author.]

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text

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computer

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online resource

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9780804790840
0804790841

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Old texts, new practicesDDC classification:

340.5/922 23

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KBP494.53 .T47 2014eb

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Contents:

Modern Islam and the religious reform tradition -- Religious knowledge and authority in precolonial Morocco -- The rhetoric of Moroccan modernity -- Delineating Muslim-Christian relations -- Refashioning notions of gender and family -- Redefining patterns of consumption -- Islamic legal tradition, change, and continuity.

Summary: In 1910, al-Mahdi al-Wazzani, a prominent Moroccan Islamic scholar completed his massive compilation of Maliki fatwas. An eleven-volume set, it is the most extensive collection of fatwas written and published in the Arab Middle East during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Al-Wazzani's legal opinions addressed practical concerns and questions: What are the ethical and legal duties of Muslims residing under European rule? Is emigration from non-Muslim territory an absolute duty? Is it ethical for Muslim merchants to travel to Europe? Is it legal to consume European-manufactured.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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In 1910, al-Mahdi al-Wazzani, a prominent Moroccan Islamic scholar completed his massive compilation of Maliki fatwas. An eleven-volume set, it is the most extensive collection of fatwas written and published in the Arab Middle East during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Al-Wazzani's legal opinions addressed practical concerns and questions: What are the ethical and legal duties of Muslims residing under European rule? Is emigration from non-Muslim territory an absolute duty? Is it ethical for Muslim merchants to travel to Europe? Is it legal to consume European-manufactured.

English.

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