ISBN:
0231527462
,
9780231527460
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xv, 134 p.)
,
ill., map.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Uniform Title:
Rendez-vous des civilisations 〈English〉
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
304.6091767
Keywords:
Demography
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Demography
;
HISTORY ; Middle East ; General
;
Demography
;
Population
;
Islamic countries Population
;
Islamic countries
;
Islamic countries Population
;
Islamic countries
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The Muslim countries in the movement of history -- Crises of transition -- The Arab family and the transition crisis -- Other Muslim women: East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa -- At the heart of Islam: the Arab world -- The non-Arab greater Middle East -- After communism -- Matrilocal Asia -- Sub-Saharan Africa.
Abstract:
We are told that Western/Christian and Muslim/Arab civilizations are on the verge of destroying each other. The demographics of one group remain sluggish, while the population of the other has exploded, widening the cultural gap and all but guaranteeing the outbreak of war. Leaving aside the media's sound and fury on this subject, measured analysis shows another reality taking shape: rapprochement between these two civilizations, benefitting from a universal movement guiding humanity since the Enlightenment. This book's historical and geographical sweep discredits the notion of a specific Islamic demography. The range of fertility among Muslim women, for example, is as varied as religious behavior among Muslims in general. Whether agnostics, fundamentalist Salafis, or al-Qaeda activists, Muslims are a diverse group that prove the variety and individuality of Islam. Youssef Courbage and Emmanuel Todd consider different degrees of literacy, patriarchy, and defensive reactions among minority Muslim populations, underscoring the spread of massive secularization throughout the Arab and Muslim world. In this regard, they argue, there is very little to distinguish the evolution of Islam from the history of Christianity, especially with Muslims now entering a global modernity. Sensitive to demographic variables and their reflection of personal and social truths, Courbage and Todd upend a dangerous meme: that we live in a fractured world close to crisis, struggling with an epidemic of closed cultures and minds made different by religion
Note:
Includes bibliographical references. - In English, translated from French. - Description based on print version record
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