Old texts, new practices Islamic reform in modern Morocco

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-Wazzan...

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Main Author: Terem, Etty 1967- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, CA Stanford University Press 2014
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Table of 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