| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 407 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-389) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Islam -- 21st century.
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Islam. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
Islamic renewal -- Islamic countries.
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Islamic renewal. |
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Islamic countries. |
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Globalization -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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Globalization -- Religious aspects -- Islam. |
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Religious awakening -- Islam.
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Religious awakening -- Islam. |
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Culture conflict -- Islamic countries.
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Culture conflict. |
| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tibi, Bassam. Islam's predicament with modernity. London ; New York : Routledge, 2009 9780415484718 0415484715 (DLC) 2008037898 (OCoLC)245537155 |
| ISBN |
9780203881552 (electronic book) |
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0203881559 (electronic book) |
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9780415484718 (Cloth) |
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0415484715 (Cloth) |
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9780415484725 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0415484723 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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