Sayyid Jamal Al-Din Al-Afghani: His Role in the Nineteenth Century Muslim Awakening.
Institution: | McGill University |
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Department: | Department of Islamic Studies. |
Degree: | MA. |
Year: | 1954 |
Keywords: | Islamic Studies.; |
Record ID: | 1574927 |
Full text PDF: | http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile108730.pdf |
In selecting Sayyid Jamal al-Din al-Afghani as the subject of our thesis in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Master's Degree in the newly created Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, we are guided by two reasons. Firstly, the Modern Age of Islam is supposed to have begun in the second half of the nineteenth century. Though Islam, in the post-mediaeval period, was confronted by the West at various places since the beginning of the eighteenth century, the early impact did not cause a ripple in the somnolent waters of Islam. [...]