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ajiss-480		ajiss-480		4	.pdf	application/pdf	1249	38	43	Some 20 years ago I encountered the academic study of Islam primarily 84 The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 35:4 through reading the books of Professor Fazlur Rahman (including the ‘Serbo-Croatian’ translation of his book Islam) all of which left a deep and indelible impression on me both as a Muslim and as an aspiring academic. Drawing upon Rahman’s work Revival and Reform and Islam and Modernity in particular, Ahmed in the second chapter examines Rahman’s thinking on the issues pertaining to the emergence and the development of Islamic theology (kalām) and the major debates that have animated them (e.g., islām and īmān; qadar and jabr, irjā’, al-ḥusn wa-l-qubh) and the role of the major theological groups and scholars in the development of Sunni theology during the formative and post-formative stages of kalām and up to the modern period.	cache/ajiss-480.pdf	txt/ajiss-480.txt