One of Max Weber''s contemporaries described him as ''a child of the Enlightenment born too late'' whose work is a ''vitriolic attack on religion''. Subsequent Weber scholarship has largely affirmed this valuation of Weber and characterized his scholarship as a manifestation of the very disenchantment that Weber describes. In The Postmodern Significance of Max Weber''s Legacy , Basit Koshul challenges this idea by showing Weber to be a postmodern thinker far ahead of his time.
