In this major contribution to Muslim intellectual history, Andrew Hammond offers a vital reappraisal of the role of Late Ottoman Turkish scholars in shaping mod

This book investigates the intellectual currents among Ottoman and North African scholars of the early modern period.

Transformations of Tradition probes how the encounter with colonial modernity conditioned Islamic jurists' conceptualizations of the shari'a. Focusing on the ju

This history of astronomy in Egypt reveals how modern science came to play an authoritative role in Islamic religious practice.

The eighteenth century brought a period of tumultuous change to the Ottoman Empire. While the Empire sought modernization through military and administrative re