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Understanding Muslims > Popular Islam: Christians Cannot Ignore It > Past Issues > Then and Now Continued, Fall 2008 Edition > Can Muslims be Modern and stull truly Muslim: Lessons for our post-modern world from the 19th century missionaries in British India
 
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Can Muslims be Modern and stull truly Muslim: Lessons for our post-modern world from the 19th century missionaries in British India
Published by Wlarson on 2008/9/22 (998 reads)

by Alan M. Guenther, Assistant Professor of History, Briercrest College, Caronport, Saskatchewan


The range of responses by Christian missionaries to the modernization of Islam by Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan in India in the latter half of the 19th century reveals differing conceptions about Islam and how authority is constructed in Islam. The evolution of their understanding of Islam provides a needed balance to some of the stereotypes about Islam and Muslims that are accepted and promoted by Evangelicals in North America today.



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