ISBN:
9780742531062
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (196 p)
Series Statement:
Logos: Perspectives on Modern Society and Culture
Parallel Title:
Print version Islam and the West : Critical Perspectives on Modernity
DDC:
303.48/21767101821
Keywords:
Islam -- 21st century
;
Islamic modernism
;
Islamic renewal
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The essays in Islam and the West: Critical Perspectives on Modernity approach the interactions of Islam, the West, and modernity through overlapping social, historical, economic, cultural, and philosophical layers. Viewed through this complex prism of analysis, the full dimensions of the relationship become clear and the result is a deeper understanding of the nature of modernity and how other societies can relate to each other
Description / Table of Contents:
Islam and the West; Contents; Introduction; 1 Muslims and the West: A Paradigm for Polarization; 2 Islam, Modernity, and the Dialectic of Dogmatism; 3 The Deficiency of Democracy in the Islamic World; 4 The Roots of Terror; 5 Europe in the Mirror of the Contemporary Middle East: Aspects of Modern European History Reconsidered; 6 Deconstructing Arab-Islamic History: A Discussion of its Evolutionary Dynamics; 7 Critical Theory and the Islamic Encounter with Modernity; 8 Second Letter on Algeria; 9 A Wild Goose Chase: To Cope, Must Islam "westernize"?; Index; About the Contributors
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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