Islam on the Street by Muhsin al-Musawi - 9780742562073

Islam on the StreetReligion in Modern Arabic Literature\nAuthor(s): Muhsin al-Musawi\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9780742562073, 978-0742562073\nSynopsis\nIslam on the Street deals with the popular side of Islam, as described not only in tracts and manuals written by Sufi shaykhs and Islamist thinkers from among the more militant groups in Islam, but also in writings by other, more secular thinkers who have also influenced public opinion. A scholar of Arabic literature, Muhsin al-Musawi explains the growing rift that has occurred between the secular intellectualthe forerunner of Arab and Islamic modernity since the late nineteenth centuryand the upsurge of Islamic fervor in the street, at the grassroots level, and what these secular intellectuals can do to reconnect with the masses. \n\nUsing some of the most important Arabic and Islamic poetry, prose, and fiction to come out of the twentieth cent.