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This project analyzes the concept of tradition in Arabic, focusing on terms like taqlīd and turāth, and their historical and cultural contexts in 19th and 20th-century Egypt and Greater Syria. It aims to enrich the study of Islam and the Middle East in Western academia by integrating Arabic perspectives into the discou…
Tradition is a key analytical concept in the study of Islam, Muslims, and the Middle East in western academia.
In late 19th and early 20th-century discourses, the concept elicited negative connotations, such as stagnation, backwardness, and irrationality.
In recent decades, scholars revised these earlier conceptions of tradition, foregrounding the ability of a tradition to adapt and change.
This reformulated understanding of tradition undergirds Talal Asad’s theorization of Islam as a “discur…
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