Farzin Vahdat

Islamic Ethos and the Specter of Modernity (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on the work of Hegel, this book proposes a framework for understanding modernity in the Muslim world and analyzes the discourse of prominent Muslim thinkers and political leaders with reference to some of the most significant markers of modernity.

This study closely examines the works of nine major Islamic thinkers in twentieth and twenty-first centuries: Mohammad Iqbal, Abul Ala Maududi , Sayyid Qutb , Fatima Mernissi, Mehdi Haeri Yazdi, Mohammad Mojtaehd Shabestari, Mohammad Khatami, Seyyed Hussein Nasr and Mohamad Arkoun.

By discussing these thinkers, the book traces the genealogy of major strands of consciousness in some crucial parts of the contemporary Islamic world and their relations to significant features of the modernity, such as human and individual subjectivity and agency, freedom, domination, culture of mass democracy, human rights, women's rights, political activism and participation, economic ethos and views on forms of property ownership, as well as social and cultural pluralism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783084395
• Artikelnr.: 44366927

Autorenporträt

Farzin Vahdat

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Sir Muhammad Iqbal: The Dialectician of Muslim Authenticity
2. Sayyid Abul 'Ala Maududi: A Theorist of Disciplinary Patriarchal State
3. An Islamic Totality in the Ideology of Sayyid Qutb
4. Fatima Mernissi: Women, Islam, Modernity and Democracy
5. Mehdi Haeri Yazdi and the Discourse of Modernity
6. Postrevolutionary Islamic Modernity in Iran: The Intersubjective Hermeneutics of Mohamad Mojtahed Shabestari
7. Religious Modernity in Iran: Dilemmas of Islamic Democracy in the Discourse of Mohammad Khatami
8. Seyyed Hossein Nasr: An Islamic Romantic?
9. Mohammed Arkoun and the Idea of Liberal Democracy in Muslim Lands
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index