AbstractsLaw & Legal Studies

Sayyid Jamal Al-Din Al-Afghani: His Role in the Nineteenth Century Muslim Awakening.

by Sharif. al-Mujahid




Institution: McGill University
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


Abstract

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. [...]