Bassam Tibi

Islam's Predicament with Modernity (eBook, ePUB)

Religious Reform and Cultural Change

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents an in-depth cultural and political analysis of the issue of political Islam as a potential source of tensions and conflict, and how this might be peacefully resolved. Looking at modernity from an Islamic point of view, the author analyses issues such as law, knowledge and human rights.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134013401
• Artikelnr.: 38267706

Autorenporträt

Bassam Tibi is Professor of International Relations at the University of Goettingen and A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Cultural Tensions, Modernity, Globalization, and Conflict 1.
The Predicament: The Exposure to Cultural Modernity, and the Need for an
Accommodation. Religious Reform and Cultural Change in Islamic Civilization
2. Issue Areas of the Predicament I: Modernity and Knowledge. Torn Between
Reason and Islamization 3. Issue Areas of the Predicament II: Cultural
Modernity and Law. The Contemporary Reinvention of Shari'a for the
Shari'atization of Islam 4. Issue Areas of the Predicament III: Islam, the
Principle of Subjectivity and Individual Human Rights 5. Islam's
Predicament as a Source of Conflict. Cultural-Religious Tensions and
Identity Politics 6. Cultural Change and Religious Reform I: The Challenge
of Secularization in the Shadow of De-Secularization 7. Cultural Change and
Religious Reform II: Pluralism of Religions vs. Islamic Supremacism 8.
Authenticity and Cultural Legacy. The Revival of the Heritage of Islamic
Rationalism: Falsafa/Rational Philosophy vs. Fiqh-Orthodoxy 9. Case Studies
I. The Failed Cultural Transformation in Egypt: A Model for the World of
Islam? 10. Case Studies II. The Gulf Beyond the Age of Oil: The Envisioned
Cultural Project for the Future 11. Conclusions and Future Prospects.
Cultural Modernity and the Islamic Dream of Semi-Modernity. Conclusions