Title Islam's predicament with modernity : religious reform and cultural change / Bassam Tibi

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 407 pages) Contents Cultural tensions, modernity, globalization, and conflict -- The predicament : the exposure to cultural modernity, and the need for an accommodation. Religious reform and cultural change in Islamic civilization -- Issue areas of the predicament I : modernity and knowledge. Torn between reason and Islamization -- Issue areas of the predicament II : cultural modernity and law. The contemporary reinvention of shari'a for the shari'atization of Islam -- Issue areas of the predicament III : Islam, the principle of subjectivity, and individual human rights -- Islam's predicament as a source of conflict. Cultural-religious tensions and identity politics -- Cultural change and religious reform I : The challenge of secularization in the shadow of de-secularization -- Cultural change and religious reform II : pluralism of religions vs. Islamic supremacism -- Authenticity and cultural legacy : a plea for the revival of the heritage of Islamic rationalism : falsafa/rational philosophy vs. fiqh-orthodoxy -- Case studies I : the failed cultural transformation in Egypt. A model for the Islamic world? -- Case studies II : the gulf beyond the age of oil. The envisioned cultural project for the future -- Conclusions and future prospects : cultural modernity and the Islamic dream of semi-modernity Summary This book 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 modernity from an Islamic point of view, the author analyses issues such as law, knowledge and human rights Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-389) and index Notes English Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2021. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Islam -- 21st century. Islamic renewal -- Islamic countries Globalization -- Religious aspects -- Islam. Religious awakening -- Islam. Culture conflict -- Islamic countries 11.84 Islam: other. RELIGION -- Islam -- Theology. Culture conflict Globalization -- Religious aspects -- Islam Islam Islamic renewal Religious awakening -- Islam Globalisierung Islam Kulturwandel Moderne Pluralistische Gesellschaft Religiöser Wandel Säkularismus Islam. Moderniteit. Culturele aspecten. Islam -- 21st century. Islamic renewal -- Islamic countries. Globalization -- Religious aspects -- Islam. Religious awakening -- Islam. Culture conflict -- Islamic countries. Islam och civila samhället. Islamic countries Form Electronic book ISBN 9780203881552 0203881559 9780415484718 0415484715 1134013418 9781134013418 1282016466 9781282016460 9786612016462 6612016469 9781134013401 113401340X

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