Islamic Modernism and the Re-Enchantment of the Sacred in the Age of History

Shows how the adoption of historicism in the 19th century engendered Islamic modernism as a theological reform movement Provides a new framework for conceptualising the relationship between Western and non-Western modernitiesExplores Islamic Modernist rewriting of Islamic history as it reconfigured the nature and function of religion as a category of analysisShows that Islamic Modernists adopted intellectual frameworks that first emerged in Europe, then deployed them to argue for the superiority