Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition: Reform, Rationality, and ModernitySamira Haj conceptualizes Islam through a close reading of two Muslim reformers Muhammad ibn 'Abdul Wahhab (1703 1787) and Muhammad 'Abduh (1849 1905) each representative of a distinct trend, chronological as well as philosophical, in modern Islam. Their works are examined primarily through the prism of two conceptual questions: the idea of the modern and the formation of a Muslim subject. Approaching Islam through the works of these two Muslims, she