Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition: Reform, Rationality, and Modernity
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Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition: Reform, Rationality, and Modernity

Reviewed by Haris Ali Tariq  Samira Haj’s main argument is to seek to understand the Islamic tradition according to its own terms, categories and rationalities. Within this argument however is another aim which is to show the dynamic nature of tradition. The former is the argument of the book generally, while the latter informs the…