Jewish and Muslim Encounters with Modernity: Common Experiences

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1 Louay M. Safi, The Challenge of Modernity: The Quest for Authenticity in the Arab Wold, Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1994, p. 12.

2 Andrew Rippin, Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices, London: Routledge, 1993, pp. 2–13.

3 Agata Bielik-Robson, “Modernity: The Jewish Perspective,” New Blackfriars, Vol. 94, No. 1050, March 2013, p. 189.

4 Encyclopedia Judaica, s.v., “Emancipation”, https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/emancipation (accessed 1 June 2017).

5 Jacob J. Staub, “A Reconstructionist Perspective on the Enlightenment and the Emancipation”, in Judaism, New York, Vol. 38, No. 4, Fall 1989, p. 428.

6 Monika Richarz, “The History of the Jews in Europe During the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries”, in The Holocaust and United Nations Outreach Programme Discussion Papers Series Vol. I, No. 8, p. 81, http://www.un.org/en/holocaustremembrance/docs/pdf/Volume%20I/The_History_of_the_Jews_in_Europe.pdf (accessed 9 August 2017).

7 Ibid., p. 81.

8 Michael A. Meyer, “Modernity as a Crises for Jews”, in Modern Judaism, Vol. 9, No. 2, May 1989, pp. 152–162.

9 “How Modernity Changed Judaism – Interview with Rabbi David Ellenson, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 15th September 2008”, http://jcpa.org/article/how-modernity-changed-judaism-interview-with-rabbi-david-ellenson/.

10 Rauven Hammer, “Judaism and Modernity”, The Jerusalem Post, June 6, 2017.

11 Fikret Karčić, The Bosniaks and the Challenges of Modernity: Late Ottoman and Hapsburg Times, Sarajevo: El-Kalem, 1999, pp. 25–32.

12 Fazlur Rahman, Islam, Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 1979, p. 214.

13 Fikret Karčić, The Bosniaks and the Challenges of Modernity: Late Ottoman and Hapsburg Times, Sarajevo: El-Kalem, 1999, pp. 109–154.

14 Aydin Bayram, “Modernity and the Fragmentation of the Muslim Community in Response: Mapping Modernist, Reformist and Traditionalist Responses”, Ankara Universitesi Ilahiyat Fakultesi Dergisi, Vol. 55, No. 1, 2014, pp. 71–100.

15 Fikret Karčić, Društveno-pravni aspekt islamskog reformizma (Social and Legal Aspect of Islamic Reformism), Sarajevo: Islamski teološki fakultet, 1990, pp. 249–255.

16 Mustansir Mir, “The Jewish and Christian Encounter with Modernity: Relevance for Muslims”, in Western Perceptions of Muslims; Muslim Perceptions of the West, ed. Zafar I. Ansari and John L. Esposito, Islamabad: Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic University; Washington, DC: Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University, 2001, pp. 178–195.

17 Ibid., p. 194.

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Fikret Karčić

Fikret Karčić is Professor of Comparative Legal History at the Faculty of Law, University of Sarajevo. He taught at the Faculty of Islamic Studies in Sarajevo, Marmara University in Istanbul, International Islamic University Malaysia, University of Oslo and Boise State University in the USA. His main academic interest is history of Islamic law and institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the post-Ottoman period, reformist movements in Islam, Balkan Muslims and comparative legal cultures.