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Any discussion of Muslim intellectual life in the twentieth century must take into account the defining context of modernisation, with its dislocating effects on structural, economic, societal, political and cultural realities in Muslim countries.
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Modern Muslim Intellectuals and the Qur'an, OUP, Oxford 2004

 

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