Download or read book Taste of Modernity written by Itzchak Weismann and published by Islamic History and Civilizati. This book was released on 2001 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the conceptual and social responses among the three consecutive Islamic reform trends of nineteenth-century Damascus - the Naqshbandi order, the Akbarī theosophy, and the Salafī tendency - to the two-fold challenge of modernity: Ottoman state formation and European economic penetration.