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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454260603321

Autore

Tibi Bassam

Titolo

Islam's predicament with modernity [[electronic resource] ] : religious reform and cultural change / / Bassam Tibi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-134-01341-8

1-282-01646-6

9786612016462

0-203-88155-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (424 p.)

Disciplina

297.2/7

320.557

Soggetti

Islam - 21st century

Islamic renewal - Islamic countries

Globalization - Religious aspects - Islam

Religious awakening - Islam

Culture conflict - Islamic countries

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [370]-389) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Cultural tensions, modernity, globalization, and conflict; Chapter 1 The predicament: the exposure to cultural modernity, and the need for an accommodation: Religious reform and cultural change in Islamic civilization; Chapter 2 Issue areas of the predicament I: modernity and knowledge: Torn between reason and Islamization; Chapter 3 Issue areas of the predicament II: cultural modernity and law: The contemporary reinvention of shari'a for the shari'atization of Islam

Chapter 4 Issue areas of the predicament III: Islam, the principle of subjectivity, and individual human rightsChapter 5 Islam's predicament as a source of conflict: Cultural-religious tensions and identity politics; Chapter 6 Cultural change and religious reform I: the challenge of secularization in the shadow of de-secularization; Chapter 7 Cultural change and religious reform II: pluralism of religions vs. Islamic



supremacism; Chapter 8 Authenticity and cultural legacy: A plea for the revival of the heritage of Islamic rationalism: falsafa/rational philosophy vs. fiqh-orthodoxy

Chapter 9 Case studies I: the failed cultural transformation in Egypt: A model for the Islamic world?Chapter 10 Case studies II: the Gulf beyond the age of oil: The envisioned cultural project for the future; Chapter 11 Conclusions and future prospects: Cultural modernity and the Islamic dream of semi-modernity; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Islam's Predicament with Modernity 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 the issue of modernity from an Islamic point of view, the author examines the role of culture and religion in Muslim society under conditions of globalisation, and analyses issues such as law, knowledge and human rights. He engages a number of significant studies on political Islam and draws on detailed case studies, rejecting the approaches of both Oriental