Islam in Global Modernity: Sociological Theory and the Diversity of Islamic Modernities

✍ Scribed by Dietrich Jung

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 222
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-39954-2

This book combines sociological theorising with studies on the Middle East and Islam. The diversity of modernities that can be observed in our world is linked to the claim of living in a global modernity, in a world society. The book underpins this claim with numerous excursions into Islamic history. It criticises the view that modernisation can be equated with westernisation and considers different projects of specifically Islamic modernities as integral parts of world society. From this perspective, the study contributes to the "provincialisation" of European history in contemporary social scientific thought. Contrary to the theories of postcolonialism associated with the call for the provincialisation of Europe, however, this book adheres to essential traditions of classical sociology. It thus aims to make a contribution to the social theoretical discussion on modernity, which is empirically underpinned with the help of data from the history of the Middle East and Islam.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface to “Islam in Global Modernity: Sociological Theory and the Diversity of Islamic Modernities” by Dietrich Jung
Contents
1 Introduction: Islam, Modernity, Modernities, and the “Provincialization” of Europe
1.1 Why This Book? Autobiographical Notes and Theoretical Positioning
1.2 Hijra wa jawazat: Michel Foucault and Hafiz al-Asad
1.3 The Organization of the Book and the Course of the Argumentation
References
2 Islam and Modernity: A Sketch of the Academic Engagement with the Middle East and Islam
2.1 Islam and the Middle East in the Understanding of Modernization Theory
2.2 Edward Said’s Criticism of Orientalism
2.3 Neo-Orientalists and Renewers in Islamic Studies
2.4 Research on Modern Islamic Piety Movements
2.5 Conclusions: The State of Research
References
3 Islam and the Diversity of Modernity: Multiple, Successive, and Entangled Modernities
3.1 Shmuel Eisenstadt: The Theory of Multiple Modernities
3.2 Peter Wagner: The Theory of Successive Modernities
3.3 Postcolonialism: The Theory of Entangled Modernities
3.4 Ignaz Goldziher: Orientalist and Jewish Reformer
3.5 Muhammad Abduh: Egyptian Grand Mufti and Islamic Reformer
3.6 Conclusions: Restricted Liberalisms and Colonial Entanglements
References
4 Islam and the Unity of Modernity: Modernization as an “Empty Progression”
4.1 Emile Durkheim: Anomie, Fait Social and Organic Solidarity
4.2 Niklas Luhmann: World Society and Functional Differentiation
4.3 Islam and Functional Differentiation: State, Economy and Science in Islamic Contexts
4.4 Modernity as a Cultural Project and as a Structural Process of “Empty Progression”
4.5 Conclusions: Unity and Difference of Modernity
References
5 Islam and the Emergence of Modernity: World Society as an Emergent Social Reality
5.1 Functional Differentiation as an Emerging Structur of Modernity
5.2 Emergence and Functional Differentiation in Islamic History I: Faith and Science in Islamic Thought
5.3 Emergence and Functional Differentiation in Islamic History II: Towards the Autonomy of Politics in the Islamic World
5.4 Conclusions: Max Weber and Islam
References
6 Islam and the Modern Subject: Contingency, Identity, and Subject Cultures
6.1 Social Contingency and Modern Uncertainties
6.2 The Modern Subject: The Simultaneity of Autonomy and Submission
6.3 Typology of Modern Subject Cultures and Islamic Modernities
6.4 Conclusion: Islamic History in the Context of a “World Time”
References
7 Islam and the Modern “World Culture”: Organizations, Institutions, and Social Actors
7.1 World Society as World Culture: Theoretical Premises and Deliminations of the Stanford School
7.2 Isomorphic Forms of World Culture: Formal Organizations and Social Actors
7.3 Two Case Studies: Kemalist Turkey and the Islamic Republic of Iran
7.3.1 The Secularism of the Republic of Turkey
7.3.2 The Rule of the Religious Scholars in the Islamic Republic of Iran
7.4 Conclusions: Diffusions and Decouplings as “Circulative Adaptation”
References
8 Conclusion: World Society and the Islamic Discourse of Modernity
8.1 Summary: Islam in Global Modernity
8.2 World Society as a Point of Comparison and Global History
8.3 The Islamic Discourse of Modernity: Authenticity and Hegemony
References