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Equinox Publishing Ltd Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere: A Genealogy of the Modern Essentialist Image of Islam
In light of the ongoing public debate that focuses on differences between Islam and the West, this book suggests a change of perspective. It departs from the observation that both western Orientalists and Islamist activists have defined Islam similarly as an all-encompassing religious, political and social system. In shifting from differences to similarities, it leaves behind the increasingly circular debate about the true nature of Islam in which the Muslim religion has been represented either as intrinsically hostile to or as principally compatible with modern culture. Instead, it associates the evolution of a particularly essentialist image of Islam with a complex process of cross-cutting (self)-interpretations of Muslim and Western societies within an emerging global public sphere. Putting its focus on the life and work of a number of paradigmatic individuals, the book investigates the intellectual encounters and discursive interdependencies among western and Muslim intellectuals. In a historical genealogy it deconstructs the essentialist image of Islam in uncovering its conceptual foundations in the modern transformation of European and Muslim societies from the nineteenth century onwards. Thereby, the changing infrastructure of the global public sphere has facilitated the gradual popularization, trivialization, and dissemination of a previously elitist discourse on Islam and modernity. In this way, the idea of Islam as an all-encompassing system has been turned into accepted knowledge in the Western and Muslim worlds alike.
£25.00
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Der Islam in der globalen Moderne: Soziologische Theorie und die Vielfalt islamischer Modernitäten
Dieses Buch vereint soziologische Theoriebildung mit Studien zum Nahen Osten und zum Islam. Die Vielfalt von Modernitäten, die in unsere Welt beobachtet werden kann, wird dabei mit dem Anspruch verbunden, gleichzeitig in einer globalen Moderne, in einer Weltgesellschaft zu leben. Das Buch untermauert diesen Anspruch mit zahlreichen Exkursen in die islamische Geschichte. Es kritisiert die Auffassung, dass Modernisierung mit Verwestlichung gleichzusetzen wäre und betrachtet unterschiedliche Projekte von spezifisch islamischen Modernitäten als integrale Teile der Weltgesellschaft. Aus dieser Perspektive leistet die Studie einen Beitrag zur „Provinzialisierung“ der europäischen Geschichte im zeitgenössischen sozialwissenschaftlichen Denken. Entgegen den mit der Aufforderung zur Provinzialisierung Europas verbundenen Theorien des Postkolonialismus hält dieses Buch aber an wesentlichen Traditionen der klassischen Soziologie fest. Es will damit einen Beitrag zur sozialtheoretischen Diskussion um die Moderne leisten, der empirisch mit Hilfe von Daten aus der Geschichte des Nahen Ostens und des Islams untermauert wird.
£49.49
Edinburgh University Press Islamic Modernities in World Society: The Rise, Spread, and Fragmentation of a Hegemonic Idea
How is one authentically" modern? Substantively drawing on contemporary social theory, this book investigates the multiplicity of answers that Muslims have given to this question since the end of the nineteenth century. Through six historical and thematic case studies the chapters examine the historical evolution of multiple modernities within Islam. The book argues that we can observe the rise and spread of a relatively hegemonic idea according to which the relation to Islamic traditions bestows projects of Muslim modernities with cultural authenticity. At the same time, it provides an interpretation of this specifically Islamic discourse of modernity as an inherent part of global modernity in conceptual terms understood as the emergence of world society. Key Features Interprets modern Muslim history as an integral part of global modernity Presents a unique combination of social theory with Islamic studies Critically revises Eisenstadt's concept of multiple modernities Combines two distinct concepts of world society with theories of social emergence Six case studies give an account on the multiple modernities within Islam A theoretically informed fresh view on the construction of modern Muslim identities Based on more than 30 years of experience in Muslim countries "
£81.00
Palgrave Macmillan Postcolonialism and Social Theory in Arabic
Chapter 1: Beyond Deconstruction An Introduction To Writing Social Theory In Arabic.- Part I: Social theory in Academic disciplines.- Chapter 2: (Post-)Colonialism, Authoritarianism, And Authenticity: Sociology In Arab Countries.- Chapter : Who Counts As A Theorist? Locating Maghrebi Sociologists In The Intellectual History Of Decolonization.- Chapter 4: Decentering First World War History: Arabic Perspectives On A Global Event.- Chapter 5: The Islamization Of Knowledge: Critique And Alternative.- Part II: Social theory Beyond Academic Disciplines.- Chapter 6: Liquid Modernity In Arabic.- Chapter 7: Crisis And Creativity: Tradition And Revolution In Arab Social Theory.- Chapter 8: The Road Out Of Marxism: Entangled Thought In 1970s Lebanon.- Chapter 9: Arabic Social Theory In Japanese And Indonesian: Transregional Ideoscapes Of The Long 1960s.
£109.99
