000			01103nam a22001697a 4500
020			_a9780143031277
082			_a297.1 _bSOR/C
100			_aSorman, Guy
245			_aThe children of Rifaa : in search of a moderate Islam
260			_aNew Delhi _bPenguin _c2004
300			_a288p.
520			_aIt is difficult, sometimes even painful, to be a Muslim. In 1826, Rifaa el Tahtawi, a theologian in Cairo, arrived in Paris. His mission was to discover the secret of the scientific prowess of the West and find out if it was possible to reconcile the tenets of Islam with a modern and progressive outlook. By the time he returned to Egypt in 1831, after a thorough study of Western science, military power and jurisprudence, he had come to the conclusion that nothing in the Koran opposed the modernization of the Muslim world. His enlightened analysis led to what is known as the Arab Renaissance , a discernible shift towards modernity and democracy in the Muslim world, which lasted till the 1950s.
650			_aIslamic modernism
650			_aIslamic renewal
650			_aIslam
942			_cBK
999			_c62285 _d62285