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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Halevi, Leor
Titre(s) : Modern things on trial [Texte imprimé] : Islam's global and material reformation in the age of Rida, 1865-1935 / Leor Halevi
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Columbia University Press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XI-367 p.) : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages [339]-352) and index
In cities awakening to global exchange under European imperial rule, Muslims encountered
all sorts of strange and wonderful new things - synthetic toothbrushes, toilet paper,
telegraphs, railways, gramophones, brimmed hats, tailored pants, and lottery tickets.
The passage of these goods across cultural frontiers spurred passionate debates. Realizing
that these goods were changing religious practices and values, proponents and critics
wondered what to outlaw and what to permit. In this book, Leor Halevi tells the story
of the Islamic trials of technological and commercial novelties of the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries. He focuses on the communications of an entrepreneurial
Syrian interpreter of the shari'a named Rashid Rida, who became a renowned reformer
by responding to the demand for authoritative and authentic religious advice. Upon
migrating to Egypt, Rida founded an Islamic magazine, The Lighthouse, which cultivated
an educated, prosperous readership within and beyond the British Empire. To an audience
eager to know if their scriptures sanctioned particular interactions with particular
objects, he preached the message that by rediscovering Islam's foundational spirit,
the global community of Muslims would thrive and realize modernity's religious and
secular promises. Through Rida's international correspondence, Halevi argues that
religious entanglements with new commodities and technologies were the driving forces
behind local and global projects to reform the Islamic legal tradition
Sujet(s) : Riḍā, Muḥammad Rašīd (1865-1935)
Réformisme islamique -- 19e siècle
Modernisme islamique -- 19e siècle
Modernisme islamique -- 1900-1945
Réformisme islamique -- 19e siècle
Musulmans -- Vie intellectuelle -- 19e siècle
Musulmans -- Vie intellectuelle -- 1900-1945
Indice(s) Dewey :
909.091 767 (23e éd.) = Histoire universelle - Régions où l'islam prédomine
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780231188661. - ISBN 0231188668. - ISBN 9780231547970 (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb465966484
Notice n° :
FRBNF46596648
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Prologue: the parable of the Montgolfiere and the translation of Haleby's corpse --
; Introduction: Good things made lawful: Euro-muslim objects and laissez-faire fatwas
-- ; 1. The toilet-paper fatwa: hygienic innovation and the sacred law in the late
imperial era -- ; 2. Fatwas for the partners' club: a global mufti's enterprise --
; 3. In a material world: European expansion from Tripoli to Cairo -- ; 4. Paper money
and consummate men: Capitalism and the rise of laissez-faire Salafism -- ; 5. The
Qur'an in the gramophone: sounds of Islamic modernity from Cairo to Kazan -- ; 6.
Telegraphs, photographs, railways, law codes: Tools of empire, tools of Islam -- ;
7. Arabian slippers: the turn to nationalistic consumption -- ; 8. Lottery tickets,
luxury hotels, and Christian experts: Economic liberalism vs. Islamic exclusivism
in a territorial framework -- ; Conclusions -- ; Notes -- ; Bibliography -- ; Index.
