@article{Gori Olesen_2019, title={Modernitetens sine qua non – Islamisk middelalderfilosofi og moderne reformisme}, url={https://tidsskrift.dk/slagmark/article/view/130729}, DOI={10.7146/slagmark.vi79.130729}, abstractNote={<p>The trope that modern Europe , emerging from its Dark Ages, is indebted to the Islamic Middle Ages is widespread. The article traces this ‘Islamic medievalism’ back to Muslim discourses of the late 19th<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> and early 20th<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> century. Focusing on the Egyptian intellectual Muhammad Lutfi Jum’a’s (1886-1953) portrayal of medieval Islam and its philosophers as well as his mobilization of these within a reformist ideology, it argues the following: Firstly, that Jum’a’s medievalism, perceiving medieval Islamic philosophy as the sine qua non<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>of European modernity, is indebted to readings of European orientalist histories of philosophy, demonstrating how medievalism emerged from a global discursive formation. Secondly, that Jum’a mobilized the medievalist argument and the philosophers to argue for the possibility of an alternative counter-modern Muslim and Eastern modernity where the materialist and disenchanting tendencies of European modernity are negated – a vision he shared with other so-called Easternist thinkers, who conceived of Muslim countries as belonging to a broader East ranging from North Africa to Japan.</p>}, number={79}, journal={Slagmark - Tidsskrift for idéhistorie}, author={Gori Olesen, Mattias}, year={2019}, month={Jun.}, pages={63–75} }