Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume 21 / Issue 01 / February 1958, pp 82-99
- Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1958
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00063242 (About DOI), Published online: 24 December 2009
Articles
Muslim Modernism in the Indo-Pakistan Sub-Continent
F. Rahman
Just before the intellectual impact of Britain on Indian Islam a religious reform movement had swept over Muslim India. Although this movement itself does not come into the scope of the present essay, we note it at the outset because: (a) Intellectually it sought to regenerate Islam by going back to the pure and simple Islam of the early period and tried to weaken the hold of medieval authorities on the Muslim mind. Consequently, although reactionary in itself, its ‘purification’ impetus prepared, in some measure, the way for subsequent intellectual developments.
