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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782155103321

Titolo

Public Islam and the Common Good / / edited by Armando Salvatore, Dale Eickelman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2004

ISBN

9786610467914

1-4237-1180-7

90-474-0282-0

1-280-46791-6

1-281-45825-2

9786611458256

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Collana

Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia ; ; 95

Disciplina

297.2/72

Soggetti

Democracy - Religious aspects - Islam

Islam and civil society

Islam and state

Ummah (Islam)

Islamic countries Politics and government

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

""CONTENTS""; ""NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION""; ""PREFACE PUBLIC ISLAM AND THE COMMON GOOD --- Armando Salvatore and Dale F. Eickelman""; ""Part I The Public Sphere and Religion in Contemporary Societies""; ""CHAPTER ONE MUSLIM PUBLICS --- Dale F. Eickelman and Armando Salvatore""; ""CHAPTER TWO SECRECY AND PUBLICITY IN THE SOUTH ASIAN PUBLIC ARENA --- Peter van der Veer""; ""CHAPTER THREE TECHNOLOGICAL MEDIATION AND THE EMERGENCE OF TRANSNATIONAL MUSLIM PUBLICS --- Jon W. Anderson and Yves Gonzalez-Quijano""; ""Part II The Historical Emergence of Publics in the Ottoman Empire""

""CHAPTER FOUR COFFEEHOUSES: PUBLIC OPINION IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY OTTOMAN EMPIRE --- Cengiz Kırlı""""CHAPTER FIVE GENDER, CONSUMPTION AND PATRIOTISM: THE EMERGENCE OF AN OTTOMAN PUBLIC SPHERE --- Elizabeth B. Frierson""; ""Part III Religious



Authority and the Common Good""; ""CHAPTER SIX THE 'ULAMA OF CONTEMPORARY ISLAM AND THEIR CONCEPTIONS OF THE COMMON GOOD --- Muhammad Qasim Zaman""; ""CHAPTER SEVEN WHEN DISPUTES TURN PUBLIC: HERESY, THE COMMON GOOD, AND THE STATE IN SOUTH INDIA --- Brian J. Didier""; ""Part IV Ambivalence in the Practice and Public Staging of Islam""

""CHAPTER EIGHT THE LIMITS OF THE PUBLIC: SUFISM AND THE RELIGIOUS DEBATE IN SYRIA --- Paulo G. Pinto""""CHAPTER NINE ISLAM AND PUBLIC PIETY IN MALI --- Benjamin F. Soares""; ""CHAPTER TEN FRAMING THE PUBLIC SPHERE: IRANIAN WOMEN IN THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC --- Fariba Adelkhah""; ""GLOSSARY""; ""NOTE ON CONTRIBUTORS""; ""INDEX""

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the public role of Islam in contemporary world politics. "Public Islam" refers to the diverse invocations and struggles over Islamic ideas and practices that increasingly influence the politics and social life of large parts of the globe. The contributors to this volume show how public Islam articulates competing notions and practices of the common good and a way of envisioning alternative political and religious ideas and realities, reconfiguring established boundaries of civil and social life. Drawing on examples from the late Ottoman Empire, Africa, South Asia, Iran, and the Arab Middle East, this volume facilitates understanding the multiple ways in which the public sphere, a key concept in social thought, can be made transculturally feasible by encompassing the evolution of non-Western societies in which religion plays a vital role.