Islam's Predicament with Modernity: Religious Reform and Cultural Change

ISBN-13: 9780415484725 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 424 str.

Bassam Tibi

Opis

Presents an analysis of the issue of political Islam as a potential source of tensions and conflict, and how this might be peacefully resolved. This book is suitable for scholars and advanced students of international relations, social theory, political science, religion, Islamic studies and Middle Eastern studies.

Spis treści

Introduction: Cultural Tensions, Modernity, Globalization, and Conflict  1. The Predicament: The Exposure to Cultural Modernity, and the Need for an Accommodation. Religious Reform and Cultural Change in Islamic Civilization  2. Issue Areas of the Predicament I: Modernity and Knowledge. Torn Between Reason and Islamization  3. Issue Areas of the Predicament II: Cultural Modernity and Law. The Contemporary Reinvention of Shari’a for the Shari’atization of Islam  4. Issue Areas of the Predicament III: Islam, the Principle of Subjectivity and Individual Human Rights  5. Islam’s Predicament as a Source of Conflict. Cultural-Religious Tensions and Identity Politics  6. Cultural Change and Religious Reform I: The Challenge of Secularization in the Shadow of De-Secularization  7. Cultural Change and Religious Reform II: Pluralism of Religions vs. Islamic Supremacism  8. Authenticity and Cultural Legacy. The Revival of the Heritage of Islamic Rationalism: Falsafa/Rational Philosophy vs. Fiqh-Orthodoxy  9. Case Studies I. The Failed Cultural Transformation in Egypt: A Model for the World of Islam?  10. Case Studies II. The Gulf Beyond the Age of Oil: The Envisioned Cultural Project for the Future  11. Conclusions and Future Prospects. Cultural Modernity and the Islamic Dream of Semi-Modernity.  Conclusions

O autorze

Bassam Tibi is Professor of International Relations at the University of Goettingen and A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University