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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819361903321

Autore

Masud Muhammad

Titolo

Islam and modernity : key issues and debates / / edited by Muhammad Khalid Masud, Armando Salvatore, and Martin van Bruinessen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-78402-521-6

1-282-62035-5

9786612620355

0-7486-3794-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MasudMuhammad Khalid <1939->

SalvatoreArmando

BruinessenMartin van

Disciplina

297

Soggetti

Islamic modernism

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

Preface; Part 1 Conceptualising Modernity; 1. Tradition and Modernity within Islamic Civilisation and the West, Armando Salvatore; 2. Western Scholars of Islam on the Issue of Modernity, Muhammad Khalid Masud and Armando Salvatore; Part 2 Negotiating Modernity; 3. Political Modernity in the Middle East, Sami Zubaida; 4. Islam, Modernity and the Politics of Gender: Perspectives from the Middle East, Central Asia and Afghanistan, Deniz Kandiyoti; 5. Sufism, 'Popular' Islam and the Encounter with Modernity, Martin van Bruinessen; 6. Colonialism and Islamic Law, Ebrahim Moosa; Part 3 Debating Modernity; 7. The Reform Project in the Emerging Public Spheres, Armando Salvatore; 8. The Ulama and Contestations of Religious Authority under Modern Conditions, Muhammad Qasim Zaman; 9. Islamic Modernism, Muhammad Khalid Masud; 10. The Shifting Politics of Identity, Abdulkader Tayob; List of Contributors.

Sommario/riassunto

Recent events have focused attention on the perceived differences and tensions between the Muslim world and the modern West. As a major strand of Western public discourse has it, Islam appears resistant to internal development and remains inherently pre-modern. However



Muslim societies have experienced most of the same structural changes that have impacted upon all societies: massive urbanisation, mass education, dramatically increased communication, the emergence of new types of institutions and associations, some measure of political mobilisation, and major transformations of the economy. Th