The Authenticity and Authority of Islam

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" The Authenticity and Authority of Islam "
Deanna Ferree Womack

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1083426
Doc. No	:	LA127055
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18748945-02801005‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Deanna Ferree Womack
Title & Author	:	The Authenticity and Authority of Islam [Article]\ Deanna Ferree Womack
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Social Sciences and Missions
Date	:	2015
Volume/ Issue Number	:	28/1-2
Page No	:	89–115
Abstract	:	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.
Descriptor	:	Egypte
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	islam
Descriptor	:	missions protestantes
Descriptor	:	Protestant missions
Descriptor	:	Rashid Rida
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Descriptor	:	Temple Gairdner
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18748945-02801005‬