Megan Brankley Abbas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3773944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan Brankley Abbas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan Brankley |
| FAMILY NAME | Abbas |
| SIGNATURE | ABBAS M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colgate University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Balancing Hope and Fear
During the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, many Muslim modernists exhibited mixed records regarding democracy. On the one hand, they articulated cogent arguments that Islam was, at its heart, democratic in nature and worked to counter Islamist claims to the contrary. Some crafted robust visions for Islamic democratic governance. On the other hand, many of the same modernists forged political alliances with military authoritarian regimes. Ho…
Whose Islam?
In this incisive new book, Megan Brankley Abbas argues that the Western university has emerged as a significant space for producing Islamic knowledge and Muslim religious authority. For generations, Indonesia's foremost Muslim leaders received their educations in Middle Eastern madrasas or the archipelago's own Islamic schools. Starting in the mid-twentieth century, however, growing numbers traveled to the West to study Islam before returning hom…
Between Western Academia and Pakistan
In the wake of European colonization, Muslims across the globe have wrestled with the problem of intellectual dualism, or the bifurcation of knowledge into the distinct Islamic and modern Western spheres. This article examines the career of Pakistani intellectual and University of Chicago professor, Fazlur Rahman (1919-1988), who emerged as a particularly significant figure in this debate over intellectual dualism in the latter half of the twenti…
Battling Over the Bureaucracy
On 10 October 1963, a group of Muslim college students staged a protest at the State Islamic Institute (IAIN) in Yogyakarta. Rejecting efforts by Nahdlatul Ulama to transform the IAIN system into a traditionalist fiefdom, the students declared that they would no longer accept the existing IAIN administration. Within weeks, the IAIN protests spread to Jakarta and garnered the attention of the national media, the Minister of Religious Affairs, and …
Gender and Islam in Southeast Asia
Emerging from a 2005 conference at the University of Passau (Germany),Susanne Schroter’s edited volume brings together an interdisciplinary groupof scholars, from anthropologists and historians to literary scholars and Muslimfemale activists, to examine this complex subject. The book is organizedinto four country-specific sections on Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines,and Thailand, respectively. The fifth and final section, consisting of only o…
Between Western Academia and Pakistan
In the wake of European colonization, Muslims across the globe have wrestled with the problem of intellectual dualism, or the bifurcation of knowledge into the distinct Islamic and modern Western spheres. This article examines the career of Pakistani intellectual and University of Chicago professor, Fazlur Rahman (1919-1988), who emerged as a particularly significant figure in this debate over intellectual dualism in the latter half of the twenti…
Gender and Islam in Southeast Asia
Emerging from a 2005 conference at the University of Passau (Germany),Susanne Schroter’s edited volume brings together an interdisciplinary groupof scholars, from anthropologists and historians to literary scholars and Muslimfemale activists, to examine this complex subject. The book is organizedinto four country-specific sections on Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines,and Thailand, respectively. The fifth and final section, consisting of only o…
Battling Over the Bureaucracy
On 10 October 1963, a group of Muslim college students staged a protest at the State Islamic Institute (IAIN) in Yogyakarta. Rejecting efforts by Nahdlatul Ulama to transform the IAIN system into a traditionalist fiefdom, the students declared that they would no longer accept the existing IAIN administration. Within weeks, the IAIN protests spread to Jakarta and garnered the attention of the national media, the Minister of Religious Affairs, and …
Between Western Academia and Pakistan
In the wake of European colonization, Muslims across the globe have wrestled with the problem of intellectual dualism, or the bifurcation of knowledge into the distinct Islamic and modern Western spheres. This article examines the career of Pakistani intellectual and University of Chicago professor, Fazlur Rahman (1919-1988), who emerged as a particularly significant figure in this debate over intellectual dualism in the latter half of the twenti…
Whose Islam?
In this incisive new book, Megan Brankley Abbas argues that the Western university has emerged as a significant space for producing Islamic knowledge and Muslim religious authority. For generations, Indonesia's foremost Muslim leaders received their educations in Middle Eastern madrasas or the archipelago's own Islamic schools. Starting in the mid-twentieth century, however, growing numbers traveled to the West to study Islam before returning hom…
Balancing Hope and Fear
During the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, many Muslim modernists exhibited mixed records regarding democracy. On the one hand, they articulated cogent arguments that Islam was, at its heart, democratic in nature and worked to counter Islamist claims to the contrary. Some crafted robust visions for Islamic democratic governance. On the other hand, many of the same modernists forged political alliances with military authoritarian regimes. Ho…
Islam (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Theology (5 works) · Asian Studies and History (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works)