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Book SynopsisFeaturing Immanuel Wallerstein, Joseph Massad, Marnia Lazreg, and other well-known and emerging new authors, this book seeks a more accurate understanding of Islam and Islamic societies' role and relations to global cultural and economic realities. The book confronts a trend today of analyzing Islam as a "cultural system" that stands outside of, and even predates, modernity. The authors see this trend as part of a racist discourse unaware of the realities of contemporary Islam. Islamic societies today are products of the world capitalist system and cannot be understood as being separate from its forces. The authors offer a more carefully constructed and richer portrait of Islamic societies today and forcefully challenge the belief that Islam is not part of, nor much affected by, the modern world-system.
Table of ContentsPart I Introduction; Chapter 1 Islam, Orientalism, and the Modern World-System, Khaldoun Samman, Mazhar Al-Zo’by; Part II Systems, Culture, and Difference; Chapter 2, Immanuel Wallerstein; Chapter 3 Civilized or Decadent? Time and the Culture of the Arabs, Joseph Massad; Chapter 4 Women: The Trojan Horse of Islam and Geopolitics, Marnia Lazreg; Part III Islam and the World-System; Chapter 5 Does Islam Exist? The Islamic Longue Durée and World-Systems Analysis, Boris Stremlin; Chapter 6, Ovamir Anjum; Chapter 7 Islamic Activism and the “Secular” Modern World-System: Muslim Networks, Turkish Integration, and the Civil/Cosmopolitan Movement of Fethullah Gülen, Joshua D. Hendrick; Part IV Religion, Capitalism, and Social Movements; Chapter 8 Transformations of Capitalism: The Significance of Religious and Ethnic Movements, Fouad Kalouche, Eric Mielants; Chapter 9, Ganesh K. Trichur; partV Identity, Binaries, and Difference; Chapter 10 Define and Rule: The Role of Orientalism in (Re)Colonizing Eastern Europe, Manuela Boatc; Chapter 11 From Utopistics to Utopystics: Integrative Reflections on Potential Contributions of Mysticism to World-Systems Analyses and Praxes of Historical Alternatives, Mohammad H. Tamdgidi; Chapter 12, Paul C. Mocombe;
