Description |
xxiv, 226 pages ; 24 cm |
Series |
Modern intellectual and political history of the Middle East |
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Modern intellectual and political history of the Middle East.
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Contents |
Foreword / Roy Mottahedeh -- 1. Civilizing others : global modernity and the local boundaries (French/German, Ottoman, and Arab) of savagery / Birgit Schaebler -- 2. Subduing globalization : the challenge of the indigenization movement / Mehrzad Boroujerdi -- 3. Subjectivity, political evaluation, and Islamist trajectories / Sayres S. Rudy -- 4. Islam in the West : modernity and globalization revisited / Jocelyne Cesari -- 5. Islam, knowledge, and "the West" : the making of a global Islam / Leif Stenberg -- 6. Globalization, migration, and identity : Sudan, 1800-2000 / Heather J. Sharkey -- 7. Globalization and the Internet : the Malaysian experience / Toby E. Huff -- 8. The global mufti / Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen |
Summary |
This book is a compilation of papers on Islam from scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds such as history, religious studies, anthropology, sociology and political science. It also tries to take into account the larger Muslim world with papers on Malaysia, Turkey, Sudan, Egypt, Israel-Palestine, Europe and the United States. This book is vital in beginning to understand the effects of globalization on Islam and the Muslim world |
Analysis |
Muslim world |
Notes |
"This volume is a product of a workshop held at the Center for Middle eastern studies at Harvard University in the summer of 1999"--Intro |
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Formerly CIP. Uk |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Globalization -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- Congresses.
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Islam -- 20th century -- Congresses.
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Globalization -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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Islam -- 20th century.
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SUBJECT |
Islamic countries -- Civilization http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068437 -- Congresses.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
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Islamic countries -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068437
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Author |
Stenberg, Leif.
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Schäbler, Birgit.
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LC no. |
2004008319 |
ISBN |
0815630247 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0815630492 paperback alkaline paper |
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