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

• Autore: Tibi Bassam
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (424 p.)
• Disciplina: 297.2/7; 320.557
• Soggetto topico: Islam - 21st century; Islamic renewal - Islamic countries; Globalization - Religious aspects - Islam; Religious awakening - Islam; Culture conflict - Islamic countries
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Islam's predicament with modernity
• ISBN: 1-134-01341-8; 1-282-01646-6; 9786612016462; 0-203-88155-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454260603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II