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Theological Responses to Modernity in the Nineteenth-century Middle East

Author	Oliver Scharbrodt
Title of item	Theological Responses to Modernity in the Nineteenth-century Middle East
Volume	Book 3
Pages	139-154
Total pages	151
Parent publication	Lights of Irfan
Publisher of this ed.	Wilmette, IL: Irfan Colloquia
Date of this edition	2002
Language	English
Permission	editor and publisher
Posted	2010-05-18 by Jonah Winters
Classified in	Published Articles
URL	bahai-library.com/scharbrodt_modernity
Abstract	With their theologies, Bahá'u'lláh and Muhammad 'Abduh both responded to the challenge of modernity and sought change, but while 'Abduh remained on the grounds of the Islamic tradition, Bahá'u'lláh founded a new religion.
Notes	Presented at the Irfan Colloquia Session #36, London (July 13-15, 2001). Mirrored with permission from irfancolloquia.org/36/scharbrodt_abduh.
Tags	19th century; Abdul-Baha, Life of (documents); Interfaith dialogue; Islam; Middle East; Modernity; Muhammad Abduh; Philosophy; Rationality; Reform; Theology
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Last edited	2023-06-22 19:55 EST. See previous versions [archive.org]. Documents posted between 2003-2012 had various slightly different URLs and sometimes can be found in archive.org with addresses like bahai-library.com/file.php5?file=scharbrodt_modernity.

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