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Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age: Religious Authority and Internal Criticism greater hippias the purpose of practicing philosophyAmong traditionally educated scholars in the Islamic world there is much disagreement on the crises that afflict modern Muslim societies and how best to deal with them, and the debates have grown more urgent since 9 11. Through an analysis of the work of Muhammad Rashid Rida and Yusuf al Qaradawi in the Arab Middle East and a number of scholars belonging to the Deobandi orientation in colonial and contemporary South Asia, this book examines some of