LEADER 04340nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910456579303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-60547-6 010 $a9786613786166 010 $a0-231-52746-2 035 $a(CKB)2550000000036325 035 $a(EBL)908823 035 $a(OCoLC)826476115 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000535421 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12202260 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535421 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10536489 035 $a(PQKB)11239379 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908823 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908823 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10472006 035 $a(OCoLC)731128332 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000036325 100 $a20101007d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA convergence of civilizations$b[electronic resource] $ethe transformation of Muslim societies around the world /$fYoussef Courbage and Emmanuel Todd ; translated by George Holoch 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (153 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-15002-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; List of Figures and Tables; Introduction: Clash of Civilizations or Universal History?; 1. The Muslim Countries in the Movement of History; The Growth of Literacy and the Decline in Fertility; A "Disenchantment" 5 of the Muslim World; 2. Crises of Transition; Literacy, Contraception, Revolution; Muslim Crises of Transition; Islamism and Forecasting the Future; The Question of Ideological Content; 3. The Arab Family and the Transition Crisis; Patrilinealism and Patrilocalism; The Shiite Law of Inheritance; Endogamy; Psychological and Ideological Implications of Endogamy 327 $aThe Shock of Modernization4. Other Muslim Women: East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa; Malaysian and Indonesian Matrilocalism; The Mass Polygamy of Sub-Saharan Africa; Unprecedented Transition Crises?; 5. At the Heart of Islam: The Arab World; A Belated and Unexpected Transition: Literacy and Oil Wealth; France and the Acceleration of the Transition in the Maghreb; Backwardness and Division in Syria: Sunnis and Alawites; The Heterogeneity of the Arabian Peninsula; A European Lebanon?; The Palestinians: Occupation, War, and Fertility; 6. The Non-Arab Greater Middle East; Iran Ahead of Turkey 327 $aThe Uncertain Role of the StateDemographic Transition and Nation-state; Religion, Demography, Democracy; The Pakistani Demographic Time Bomb; Demographic Normality and Political Threat; Afghan Parenthesis; Bangladesh: Overpopulation and Decline of the fertility rate; 7. After Communism; Accelerated Increase in Literacy; Un-Islamic Birth Control: Through Abortion . . .; . . . And Through Infant Mortality; Muslim Divergences in the Balkans; 8. Matrilocal Asia; A Normal Transition That Has Stopped; In Malaysia, Nationalism Rather Than Islam; 9. Sub-Saharan Africa 327 $aRegional Differences in Fertility:Ethnic Groups and ReligionsMuslim Girls Spared by Mortality; Conclusion; Appendix: Total Fertility Rates of Muslim Countries; Notes 330 $aWe are told that Western/Christian and Muslim/Arab civilizations are on the verge of destroying each other. The demographics of one group remain sluggish, while the population of the other has exploded, widening the cultural gap and all but guaranteeing the outbreak of war. Leaving aside the media's sound and fury on this subject, measured analysis shows another reality taking shape: rapprochement between these two civilizations, benefitting from a universal movement guiding humanity since the Enlightenment.This book's historical and geographical sweep discredits the notion of a s 606 $aDemography 607 $aIslamic countries$xPopulation 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDemography. 676 $a304.60917/67 700 $aCourbage$b Youssef$0127500 701 $aTodd$b Emmanuel$f1951-$0151130 701 $aHoloch$b George$0850650 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456579303321 996 $aA convergence of civilizations$91899366 997 $aUNINA