Islam, Globalization and Postmodernity

✍ Scribed by Akbar S. Ahmed

Year: 1994
Tongue: English
Leaves: 253
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book examines the cultural responses of Muslims to the transformations, contradictions and challenges confronting contemporary Islam as it moves towards the twenty-first century. The diffusion of populations, the globalization of culture and the forces of postmodernity have shaken the world like never before. These developments have generated a debate among Muslims which, as the contributors to this volume show, will have far-reaching consequences not just for the Muslim world, but for relations between Islam and the West more generally.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of contributors......Page 8
Foreword by Ernest Gellner......Page 12
Islam in the age of postmodernity......Page 16
Turkish arabesk and the city: Urban popular culture as spatial practice......Page 36
Contested meanings and the politics of authenticity: The 'Hosay' in Trinidad......Page 53
How to be Islamic without being an Islamic state: Contested models of development in Malaysia......Page 78
The politics of Islamic fundamentalism: Iran, Tunisia and the challenge to the secular state......Page 106
Contemporary Islamic movements in the Arab world......Page 129
Challenges for Muslim women in a postmodern world......Page 142
Women and the veil: Personal responses to global process......Page 156
Sojourners abroad: Migration for higher education in a post-peasant Muslim society......Page 175
Two Muslim intellectuals in the postmodern West: Akbar Ahmed and Ziauddin Sardar......Page 205
Diaspora and millennium: British Pakistani global-local fabulations of the Gulf War......Page 228
Index......Page 252

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